# Quote — Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

> "You must choose now. Between the two of us we can reach a treaty without a wedding. You don't have to marry him, but if you choose to marry him, you have to believe him."
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> Attolia turned, and Eddis thought that behind her mask the queen might be afraid, and so she finished lightly. "You have to believe him, because he's going to have you 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."
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> Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he's worth."
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> "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth."

- 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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