The King Of Attolia Quotes

#1. Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.

Glenda Millard

#2. I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Diana Ross

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

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Megan Whalen Turner

#8. 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

#9. I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.

Mariah Carey

#10. Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

Ralph Marston

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Zaha Hadid

#14. Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots.

Ella Frank

#15. You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That's not what this is about to them.

Rush Limbaugh

#16. 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

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

Megan Whalen Turner

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

Megan Whalen Turner

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.

Michael Crichton

#22. Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Linda Ellerbee

#23. In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

Sean Penn

#24. 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

#25. 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