33 quotes found
“I loved and lost and survived.”
“Speak of evil, and you summon it.”
“Every place there's people, there's badness.”
“From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.”
“Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.”
“...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.”
“I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves were imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.”
“Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.”
“Honor from death, I snap, is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one t...”
“Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.”
“The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.”
“I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing.""It's insane," he says, but without vehemence."It's faith," I say.”
“It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.”
“Men can be relentless," she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.”
“There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.”
“You look beautiful," Alodia says. I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "Im beautiful to the one person who matters."She nods. "Hectors mouth is going to drop open when he sees you.I hope so. ...”
“One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work it...”
“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands”
“Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.”
“Later, when we've found this mysterious ship of Hector's and are safely away, when I have time to rest and worry and a quiet corner to hide in, I will coldly remember that being a queen means being...”
“Cosm is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxis place, Cosm is the most efficient maid Ive ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her...”
