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The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1) QUOTES

The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1) QUOTES

1 " I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

2 " Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

3 " Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

4 " I'll govern for the good of the governed.
I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.
I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land and goods and taxation. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

5 " This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

6 " We're coming to the point where I may need to split my men to evade pursuit. If so, my choice of bodyguard for you will depend much on your won abilities."
"Well, I am a fast reader, and I know how to make stew."
Carroll nodded in approval "You've a sense of humor about all this, Lady. You'll need one. You're entering a life of great danger. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

7 " I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

8 " What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

9 " Kelsea didn't recognize the guard, but she knew his voice. After a moment she realized, bemused, that it was Dyer. He'd shaved his red beard.
"Dyer, is that your face under there?"
Dyer flushed bright red. Pen snorted gleefully, and Kibb clapped Dyer on the back. "I told him, Lady...now we can see every time he blushes. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

10 " You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

11 " ...Javel saw evil in those bright blue eyes, not malevolence but something much worse: an evil born of lack of self-awareness, an evil that didn't know it was evil and therefore could justify anything. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

12 " The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

13 " Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

14 " There's no other life for me. Anyway, clemency wouldn't begin to repay your debt. I've given you a greater gift than you know."
"What gift?"
"You'll find out. In return, I expect you to keep it safe."
Kelsea turned back to the mirror. "Great God, tell me you didn't impregnate me while I slept."
The fetch threw back his head and roared with laughter. He placed a friendly hand on Kelsea's back, making her skin prickle. "Tear Queen, you'll either be dead within a week or you'll be the most fearsome ruler this kingdom has ever known. I see no middle ground. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

15 " Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

16 " Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

17 " Not just a thief, but a murderer as well. Beneath the handsome man, Kelsea sensed another man, a terrible one, with a life as black as the water in an ice-covered lake. A murderer many, many times.
The idea should have brought horror. Kelsea waited for a long moment, bu what came instead was an even worse realization: it didn't matter at all. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

18 " Good stitchery," Kelsea told him. "But it will scar anyway, won't it?"
The Fetch nodded. "I'm not God, nor am I the queen's surgeon." He gave her a mocking bow. "But it won't fester, and you can tell people that you took the wound in battle."
"Battle?"
"It was a battle getting all that armor off you, and I'll tell the world so."
Kelsea smiled, put down the mirror, and turned to him. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

19 " You win your people or you lose your throne. "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)

20 " Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later "

― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)