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21 " We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done "
― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)
22 " The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled. "
23 " The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. —Father Tyler’s Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE "
24 " Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage. "
25 " They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling. "
26 " Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords; "
27 " Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men. "
28 " Some people were simply broken, something inside them grown wrong and twisted. "
29 " Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful. "
30 " I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. Books everywhere, as common as they used to be in circulation before the Crossing, affordable even for the poor. "
31 " Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before. "
32 " The Queen held up her hands for silence. At that moment, Javel knew for certain that she truly was the Queen, though he never knew why or how he knew. "
33 " Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. “I haven’t been crowned, Lazarus.” “No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life. "
34 " An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real. "
35 " Your Majesty’s rescuer said a true thing, and one that’s stayed with me. Often the direct way is the right way, for reasons that can’t be foreseen. "
36 " Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see. "
37 " I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. "
38 " Beware the past, Kelsea. Be a steward. "
39 " My responsibility, she thought, and the idea brought no fear now, only an extraordinary sense of gratitude. My kingdom. "
40 " And for all the anguish that Kelsea’s own reflection had caused her lately, she saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful. "