# Quote — Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

> Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked.
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> Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son."
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> "So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.

- Author: [Megan Whalen Turner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner.md)
- Book: [The Queen of Attolia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-queen-of-attolia.md)
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## More from this book

> Unable to guess the answer, she asked, "Who am I, that you should love me?"
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> "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth.
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> "Do you believe me?" he asked.
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> "Yes," she answered.
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> "Do you love me?"
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> "Yes."
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> "I love you."
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> And she believed him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-queen-of-attolia/unable-to-guess.md)

> "I'll be your minister--"
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> "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind."
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> "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly.
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> "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?"
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> "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it."
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> "My earrings?"
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> "What earrings?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-queen-of-attolia/ill-be-your.md)

> "Treachery," said the Mede.
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> "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name," as the rest of her guard rose up from the grass behind their captain.

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