Return of the Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Of course,” she said, “Your Majesty.” I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like “You Idiot.”
“I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is." The King didn't sound frightened. "Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--" As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is.”
“But if I hadn't lost the hand, I'd be another person entirely by now. Wishing for the hand back would be like wishing the man I already am, to be replaced by some stranger. It would be wishing my own self out of existence.”
“Ask yourself, Eugenides: why that orange tree? Why that tamarisk bush? She had promised you your heart’s desire while a child of hers was alone in the world and unhappy. See, Eugenides,” Moira said, holding out a finger from each of her hands and interlinking them. “Only two threads brought together, two threads that touched,” she reassured him. “Nothing more than that. And everything else left up to you.”
“That was inappropriate," said Attolia. "Inappropriate?" shouted the king. "You in your state on your way to war is inappropriate!" "I did not become inappropriate all by myself!" she shouted back. "Do you imagine I don't know that?”
“Nahuseresh tells me I am not king. Well see if he really prefers the Thief.”
“I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.”
“If an author's account of any man is tidy, you must believe it has been made so in contrast with the truth, which is rarely clear and never simple.”
“I’m sure Gen has a plan,” Sounis said as he held Eddis in place. “If that doesn’t frighten you, it should,” said Eddis, glowering.”
“If only wars could be won on the strength of the cheering when they begin, instead of the blood and the pain and the horror that feed the gods of discord.”
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Book Keywords:
attolis, eddis, just, irene, acceptance, war, eugenides, death, helen, truth, attolia, irene-attolia
