Attolia Quotes:

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Wanted, Attolia, King Of Attolia

You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Queens, Firsts, Said, Attolia

She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Nurse, Darkness, Wish, Attolia

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Wine, Wife, Juice, Attolia

That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Falling In Love, Kings, Ridiculous, Landslides, Attolia

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Mind, Pawns, Wells, Attolia

Who am I, that you should love me?

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Should, King Of Attolia, Attolia

"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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

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

topic: Queens, Believe, Moving, Attolia, Do You Love Me

I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Might, Needs, Shouting, King Of Attolia, Attolia

There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Hands, Two, Impossible, Attolia, Two Hands

The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

topic: Kings, Queens, Home, Bride And Groom, King Of Attolia

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your 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." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Believe, Blood, Boots, Attolia

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Loyalty, Giving, Easy, King Of Attolia, Attolia

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Fall, Knowing, King Of Attolia, Attolia

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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

topic: Country, Queens, Lying, Attolia, Very Impressive

She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

topic: Wall, Challenges, Doorways, Stone Walls, Attolia

Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," said Attolia dryly. "I had not pictured you for a fishwife." "Lo, the transforming power of love.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Queens, Memories, Romance, King Of Attolia, Attolia

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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Hurt, Kings, May, King Of Attolia, Attolia

No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Bed, Rewards, Glory, King Of Attolia, Stop Whining

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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Hands, Murder, King Of Attolia, Attolia

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

topic: Kings, Queens, Flames, King Of Attolia, Attolia

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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

topic: Country, Lying, Moon, Attolia

Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, February 2006.

topic: World, Get Up, Inverted, Attolia

Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Hurt, Hands, Voice, Attolia

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Men, Decision, Choices, King Of Attolia, Attolia

I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Wine, Giving, Attolia, You Can Trust Me

"Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you."

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

topic: Love You, Decision, Want, Attolia

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

- Megan Whalen Turner

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

topic: Lying, Sleep, Ifs, Attolia

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

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

topic: Missing, Necklaces, Way, Earrings, Attolia

I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Lying, Believe, Sometimes, Attolia

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Amputation, Majesty, Calves, King Of Attolia, Attolia

Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Mistake, Perception, King Of Attolia, Attolia

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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Eye, Listening, Attolia

How do you know that, Philo, dear?" But Philologos had had enough of being condescended to. "Because, Lamion, I am not as dumb as you think I am, even if you are." By the time Lamion had parsed this to make sure that there was in fact an insult at the end of it, Hilarion had laid a restraining hand on his arm.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Thinking, Hands, Dumb, Attolia, Restraining

This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in," Xenophon said. "I love stupid plans," said Eugenides.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Stupid, Careers, Said, Attolia

Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Eye, Hands, Glasses, Attolia, Candlelight

If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Uncles, Advice, Enemy, Attolia

It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat. "It is...too...deep!" he insisted, outraged.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Missing, Bed, Ambassadors, Attolia, Too Deep

My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Beautiful, Kings, Queens, Staring At You, Attolia

The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lifeline. Sounis was looking at her with concern. Her responding smile was artificial.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Pain, Heart, Hands, Attolia, Clear Skies

Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Believe, Worship, Said, Attolia

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Doors, Done, Attolia

You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for the loss of a hand," said the Mede, close to snarling. "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly. "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. "Or do I insult your lover?" he asked. "Not a lover," said Attolia. "Merely my choice for king.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Morning, Kings, Revenge, Snarling, Spats

Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don't hurt me anymore." Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she'd thrown her slipper in a rage and had knocked an amphora of oil from its pedestal. The amphora had been a favorite of hers. It had smashed, and the scent of the hair oil inside had lingered for days. She remembered the scent still, though she didn't know what in the stinking cell had brought it to mind.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Hurt, Children, Hair, Attolia, Don't Hurt Me

-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.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Queens, Agreement, Two, Attolia

I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Kings, Moving, Mean, Attolia

Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning?" "I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever," said Eugenides. "Pol used to say that," said Sounis, surprised. "I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Forever, Advice, Wish, Attolia

Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: War, Princess, Mean, Attolia, Helen

The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Queens, Gossip, Spy, Attolia, Reports

No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Loyalty, Queens, Wall, King Of Attolia, Attolia