Sophos Quotes

“So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

“Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

“Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I’d failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings