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The Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

Top 10 Best Quotes

“All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.”

“You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.”

“A thief never makes a noise by accident.”

“Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.”

“... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.”

“I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.”

“Dying would have been so much easier.”

“A little danger adds spice to life.”

“That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.”

“I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.”

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young-adult, attolia

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