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The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1) QUOTES

The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

2 " I don't want to be chosen above all things, one thing most of all. I want to be a part of someone's whole. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

3 " We are as strong as the people who love us. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

4 " I won't love anyone so much more than everything else that I lose it all if that person is lost. If it makes your world smaller, it isn't love. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

5 " I do not allow stars or prophecies to dictate my choices. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

6 " I will be air, and I will be rain, and I will be dust, and I will be free. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

7 " Rain is not always a storm. The wind does not always howl. Sometimes death is quite, or love is peaceful. There are little things. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

8 " What else is love but mettle and blood? "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

9 " No one thing keeps Innis Lear alive or its heart beating! That is not love! That is selfishness. That is pretending we are all only one thing. Only a star, only a woman, only a bastard. You're more than that, and I am, too: a woman and daughter of a foreign queen and a star priest. I'm all of that. Take one piece away and the rest shifts and changes, just like...just like this island, or any land. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

10 " Everything that did not get out of her way would burn. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

11 " What is the point of a crown without a legacy? "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

12 " I assume nothing, and it has served me very well. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

13 " A man cannot be friends with why. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

14 " There was little room for adventure without faith. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

15 " It begins, too, with a star prophecy.
But there are so many prophecies read on the island of Lear that to say so is as good as saying it begins with every breath. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

16 " Rain is not always a storm. The wind does not always howl. Sometimes death is quiet, or love is peaceful. There are little things. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

17 " Rain is not always a storm. The wind does not always howl. Sometimes death is quiet, or love peaceful. There are little things. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

18 " A wild tree grew in her heart. Its roots wove throughout her guts, thick with worms of death and rebirth; it stretched its crown up into the bright, open space in her mind, where she worshipped the shining stars. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

19 " She had patience, yes. The patience of a wolf; the patience of red-hot coals, tucked under black ash where their fore could not yet be seen, not until it was needed. And then everything that did not get out of her way would burn. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)

20 " I love many people, and am loved, both as a man and as a king. But there is no person in the entirety of Aremoria whom I truly call friend. There cannot be friendship without the balance of power. And in that we are not equal to any in this land, because our word is the law, and our word can send any man or woman or child to their death. "

― Tessa Gratton , The Queens of Innis Lear (Innis Lear #1)