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Megan Whalen Turner

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too.

lies, lying, tricksters

Megan Whalen Turner

Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?””Yes.””I don’t feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot.””I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you.””I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

believe, hero, whining

Megan Whalen Turner

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

dialog, dialogue, fantasy, young-adult

Megan Whalen Turner

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.

eugenides, queen-s-thief, young-adult

Megan Whalen Turner

… I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

Megan Whalen Turner

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

independence, isolation, loneliness, privacy

Megan Whalen Turner

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

foolishness, planning, wit

Megan Whalen Turner

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.

eugenides, lying

Megan Whalen Turner

That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.

gods, message, whining

Megan Whalen Turner

I know that if you don’t look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won’t find one.

eugenides, good-advice, logic

Megan Whalen Turner

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.

responsibility, serve

Megan Whalen Turner

Oh, Lady,” said the woodcutter, “my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else’s pain that makes me cry.