Megan Whalen Turner, The King Of Attolia Quotes
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.