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“It is one of the universe's deepest and cruelest jokes that it takes a lifetime to learn the lessons you need in order to live.”
Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Megan Whalen Turner
“I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is."

The King didn't sound frightened.

"Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--"
As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is.”
Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

Megan Whalen Turner
“I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.”
Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief
tags: death, just, war

“Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost.”
Jeffrey Cranor, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Megan Whalen Turner
“Of course,” she said, “Your Majesty.” I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like “You Idiot.”
Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

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