King Of Attolia Quotes

#1. Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. Before Kady was born, I didn't think having a kid would be such a big deal. My attitude was simple: Babies are nice, play with them, put them in the closet until the next time.

Tim Allen

#3. Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

Marisa De Los Santos

#4. The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Edward Young

#5. Who am I, that you should love me?

Megan Whalen Turner

#6. I didn't think about being king," he said, his voice hoarse.
Eddis stared. "Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

Megan Whalen Turner

#7. The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

Megan Whalen Turner

#8. That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Anthony Hopkins

#10. He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#11. On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. "Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon."
"Your blood," the ambassador pointed out.
Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said. He seemed lost in memory. The room was quiet.

Megan Whalen Turner

#12. Oh, and I died horribly at your hands. Gruesome murder is always a foundation for a beautiful friendship!

S.J. Kincaid

#13. It is hard to speak of sex without being clinical, brutal, or romantic.

Mason Cooley

#14. Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#15. Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth ...

Megan Whalen Turner

#16. The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.

Joanna Garcia

#17. Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

Megan Whalen Turner

#18. Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

Megan Whalen Turner

#19. That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

Megan Whalen Turner

#20. I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.

Megan Whalen Turner

#21. My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

Bernie Williams

#22. Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.

Malcolm X

#23. 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.

Megan Whalen Turner

#24. There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

Dave Rowntree

#25. 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

#26. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

Smoky Joe Wood

#27. I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

Mary Stuart Masterson