# Quote — Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

> "The second night you repeated the same words over and over. I think the fever had set in by then. Do you remember what you said?
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> "No."
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> She knew every one of them. His voice, broken and stumbling, had filled her dreams until she had wept in her sleep, crying tears for him that she'd never been able to cry for her father or for herself. "Oxe Harbrea Sacrus Vax Dragga..." she began.
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> Eugenides's chin lifted as he recognized the opening words.
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> "It's the invocation of the Great Goddess at her spring festival," he said calmly, "calling her to the aid of those that need her. Those words are archaic."

- 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)

> 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.

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