Attolia Quotes

You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

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Queens, Firsts, Said

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She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

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Nurse, Darkness, Wish

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Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

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Wine, Wife, Juice

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That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

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Falling In Love, Kings, Ridiculous

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If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

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Mind, Pawns, Wells

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Who am I, that you should love me?

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Should, King Of Attolia

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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"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.

Megan Whalen Turner

Queens, Believe, Moving

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

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I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

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Needs, Might, Shouting

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

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Hands, Two, Impossible

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The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

Megan Whalen Turner

Kings, Queens, Home

"The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

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Believe, Blood, Sound

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He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

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Kings, Wanted, King Of Attolia

"The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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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.

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Loyalty, Giving, Easy

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Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

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Kings, Fall, Knowing

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From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

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Country, Queens, Lying

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

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Wall, Challenges, Doorways

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

Megan Whalen Turner

Queens, Memories, Romance

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Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

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Hurt, Kings, May

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No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

Megan Whalen Turner

Bed, Rewards, Glory

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Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

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Kings, Hands, Murder

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Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

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Kings, Queens, Flames

"The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.

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Country, Lying, Moon

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

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World, Get Up, Inverted

"The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, February 2006.

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Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.

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Hurt, Hands, Voice

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Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

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Men, Choices, Decision

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