The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

- Megan Whalen Turner

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

- Megan Whalen Turner

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

- Megan Whalen Turner

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

- Megan Whalen Turner

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

- 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 unoffend…

- Megan Whalen Turner

Who am I, that you should love me?

- Megan Whalen Turner

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

- Megan Whalen Turner

She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had becom…

- Megan Whalen Turner