I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.
Megan Whalen TurnerShe 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 TurnerShe 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