The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief #2)

by Megan Whalen Turner

“I don’t feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot.” “I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you.” “I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.”

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

“When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don’t wait for it, Thief.”

“He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.” “So have we all from time to time,” Eddis said seriously.

Eugenides looked up at her, and Attolia felt transparent, as if her mask were gone, as if he could see her heart and know that a moment before it had been stopped by grief.

“I would like very much to strangle someone. Why don’t you go away until I decide it isn’t you?”

“I told her I’d already been hunted in Attolia, thank you very much.”