“You have heard the queen's advice. My gift is below. Would you wait to see it until you have decided what you will do with hers?”

— Megan Whalen Turner , book A Conspiracy of Kings

Eugenides to Sophos
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

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American children's writer 1965

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