"I'll be your minister--""Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind.""I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly."Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?""That necklace was h..."
- Megan Whalen Turner
"These people make my family look easy to get along with."
"Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first."
"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."
"If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive."
"Oh, Lady," said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry."
"But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness."
"... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one."
"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."
"The Lord of Rags and Tatters."