# Quote — Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

> "They are mice, Nahuseresh, hiding in their mouseholes, hoping their own familiar cat will come home to drive you away. At least when I hang people from castle walls, it is because they are traitors, not because they drive hard bargains. You seem willing to hang anyone who is displeasing to you. How kind of you to show my barons that if I am a hard ruler to cross, you are a worse one to serve. I must thank you for that as well as your emperor's gold. They will be most mousy and well behaved for months."

- 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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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-queen-of-attolia/they-are-mice

## 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.

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> "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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