Thick as Thieves Quotes

“Mother why does the River not rise
It is not the River's time
Why does the seed not sprout
It is not the seed's time
Why does the rain not fall
the leaf not unfurl itself
Where is the hind and why does she not graze the fields before us
it is not their time

The River knows its time
The seed knows its time
The rain the leaf and the hind
They know their time

The River will rise the seed will sprout
The rains come down and the leaves unfurl
The hind will bring her children to graze before us
All in their time”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Kings don’t move mountains as a favor to a friend,”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“The only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Immakuk and Ennikar." He said.

"Where?" I snapped my head around to scan the dock, and he nudged me with his elbow.

"Idiot. Us."

"Oh. Of Course.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“He shrugged. "We all spend our time under the sign of the idiot," he said, and the matter seemed settled, at least as far as he was concerned.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“It was like being lectured by an earnest, oversized child.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Everyone complained. Complaint was universal.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones. It wasn’t a matter of theory in a tiny office in the emperor’s palace. It was the work of their lives and the end of many of them.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Good thing it isn't deeper.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Oh, my Costis.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“To my knowledge, he bit the man in charge of Attolia's kitchens not once but twice."

"Good for him," The Attolian responded promptly. "More people should bite Onarkus." And I realized that of course he knew the overly proud petty tyrant of Her Majesty's kitchens. I think everyone had admired the sandal polisher that day. He'd paid for the bite with a terrific beating and then promptly bitten the man again.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“You owe me nothing, Kamet. You are a free man. It is I who owe you, and I would only be more indebted if you chose to help Attolia further. Think about it, will you?”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

“Trapped him the gray people
   as the great are brought down by the weak
   when they are many
As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds
   as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls”
― Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves