I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe him, he has his own way of showing his veracity.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: the-queen-of-attolia
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: perseverance character eugenides
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: responsibility serve
I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?
Megan Whalen TurnerHe didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: love marriage royalty attolia eugenides
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: happiness
He looked gravely at the king. "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. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last."
The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain.
"Was that a joke?" he asked.
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: loneliness isolation independence privacy
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 unoffended by the question.
She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand.
“Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough.
The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm.
The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.
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