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Oh, Lady, " said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.Megan Whalen Turner
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... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.Megan Whalen Turner
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No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.Megan Whalen Turner
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The Lord of Rags and Tatters.Megan Whalen Turner
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Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful. For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved.Megan Whalen Turner
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He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.Stephanie Landsem
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Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?Stephanie Landsem
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I am a master of foolhardy plans.Megan Whalen Turner