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Megan Whalen Turner (born November 21, 1965) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for young adults. She is best known for her novel The Thief and its four sequels. In 1997, The Thief was named a Newberry Honor book.

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She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

Challenges, Doorways, Narrower, Stone, Thicker, Wall

Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

Believe, Said, Worship

We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made" "Oh. . . In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.

Hands, Mistake, Mistakes, Real, Thoughtless, Weapon

No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

Loyalty, Queens, Shoulders, Tightens, Wall

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

Hide, Men, Pain, Stoic, Unsuccessfully, Want

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

People, Unhappy, Wonder

I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.

Boredom, Dying, Dying Of Boredom, Maybe

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

Hide, Men, Pain, Stoic, Unsuccessfully, Want

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

Believe, Lie, Lying, Sometimes, Truth

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Bed, Glory, Reward, Rewards

I'm sorry, Dite. " Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court. You know what it means to me, to make music in the court of Ferria. You've put a purse and an impossible dream in my hand. I don't know why you should apologize. " "Because I am exiling you, Dite. I intend to raze your patrimony and salt its earth. You emphatically do not need to thank me.

Apology, Brother, Dream, Exiling, Ferria, Sorry

Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

Attention, Embroidery, Father, Said, Satisfaction

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Good, Head, Juice, Shook, Wife, Wine

We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

Historians, Judge, Judging, Men, Thing, Thinking

The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

Cell, Cells, Choose, Eye, King, Kings

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.

Awful, Heartfelt, Life, Looked, Tell, Way

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it. " Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

Believe, Blood, Coming, Member, Sound

You are treasure beyond any price.

Price, Treasure

Where are my guards, Teleus?" He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.

Breathing, Costis, Men, Noted, Three

. . . That he'd seen. . . two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

Book, Books, Invisible, Men, Reading, Seen

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