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He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.Megan Whalen Turner
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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.Megan Whalen Turner
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Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head."" Is that when he cried?"" He ducked, " Attolia said dryly. Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius said, "I had not pictured you for a fishwife."" Lo, the transforming power of love.Megan Whalen Turner
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These people make my family look easy to get along with.Megan Whalen Turner
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Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.Megan Whalen Turner
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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.Megan Whalen Turner
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If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.Megan Whalen Turner
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But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.Megan Whalen Turner
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He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.Megan Whalen Turner
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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.Megan Whalen Turner
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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.Megan Whalen Turner