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• If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.

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  Uncles, Advice, Enemy

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• He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

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  Lying, Sleep, Ifs

  "The Queen of Attolia (Queen's Thief, Book 2)". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

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  Kings, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lifeline. Sounis was looking at her with concern. Her responding smile was artificial.

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  Pain, Heart, Hands

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• ...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

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  Book, Reading, Men

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• The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes narrowed while the prison keeper's widened.

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  Kings, Eye, Cells

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• Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

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  Amputation, Majesty, Calves

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• A thief never makes a noise by accident.

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  Thieves, Noise, Accidents

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• Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

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  Kings, Mistake, Perception

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• Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

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  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

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  Father, Attention, Embroidery

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• His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

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  Wrinkles, Frowning, Too Much

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

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  Kings, Worry, Gone

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

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  Fields, Failing, Slave

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• What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

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  World, Weapons, Strange

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?" "I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever," said Eugenides. "Pol used to say that," said Sounis, surprised. "I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.

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  Forever, Advice, Wish

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

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  Mountain, Lions, Force

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• I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

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  Kings, Moving, Mean

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• 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.

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  Father, Real, Reflection

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• I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

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  Enough Said, Thrones, Purses

  "A Conspiracy of Kings". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2010.

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• I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

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  Alternatives, Looks, Knows

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Thinking, Might

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• The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.

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  Summer, Kings, Wall

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• I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.

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  Horse, Cheer, Flower

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though.

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  Kings, Queens, Flower

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