#eugenides

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. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#loyalty #teleus #the-king-of-attolia #trust #loyalty

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#queen-s-thief #young-adult #young-adult

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#jeffrey-eugenides #madeleine-hanna #marriage-plot #marriage