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Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?

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Kings, Wall, Cat

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He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

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Sticks

Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

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Queens, Stones, Ever After

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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.

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Queens, Believe, Moving

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

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I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

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Hierarchy, Wanted

Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.23, HarperCollins

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One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

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Kings, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

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Care, Fine, Felt

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As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

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Kings, Worry, Gone

Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.17, Harper Collins

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The younger one looked to be completely useless.

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Useless

Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.28, Harper Collins

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[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

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Oatmeal, Littles, Bowls

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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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In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

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Kings, Queens, Afternoon

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As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

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Boys, Men, Years

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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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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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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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He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

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Responsibility, Ducks, Complaining

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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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I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

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Kings, Eye, Listening

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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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-You know-- Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen. -Go on. Attolia inclined her head. -I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that. -Do I? Attolia still smiled. -You look a little vulpine yourself. The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement.

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Queens, Agreement, Two

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She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s voice was cool. “How embarrassing,” she said, looking at his maimed arm. The king looked up then, and followed her gaze. If it was embarrassing to wake like a child screaming from a nightmare, how much more embarrassing to be the reason your husband woke screaming. A quick smile visited the king’s face. “Ouch,” he said, referring to more than the pain in his side. “Ouch,” he said again as the queen gathered him into her arms.

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Kings, Queens, Children

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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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Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I can't say I really care if your attendants hang, there are probably many people that do care, and would you please, please get down?" The king looked at him, eyes narrowed. "I don't think I've ever heard you say that many words in a row. You sounded almost articulate.

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Kings, Wall, Nice

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Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.

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Country, Kings, Today

Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The King of Attolia”, p.7, Harper Collins

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