Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. Megan Whalen Turner More Quotes by Megan Whalen Turner More Quotes From Megan Whalen Turner All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana. Megan Whalen Turner feet forever lying 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 growing-up might thinking He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick. Megan Whalen Turner sticks "Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him. 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