No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: young-adult eugenides queen-s-thief
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: responsibility choices
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: attolia gen eugenides the-thief sounis
I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.
Stichwörter: attolia gen eugenides magus the-thief
So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
Stichwörter: attolia gen thief eugenides sounis eddis sophos
A natural! A natural!
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: a-conspiracy-of-kings
He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.
Megan Whalen TurnerOne 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?
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.
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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