“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.”

—  Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

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American children's writer 1965

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