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The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1) QUOTES

The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1) QUOTES

21 " There was good, and there was evil, but there was so much space between the two. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

22 " Women are strongest when bearing one another’s pain. We each take a little on ourselves. No one dies, and we all heal together. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

23 " Sometimes we have to hide from what others see in order to be what we know we are. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

24 " He is like the sun. When he is focused on you, everything is bright and warm. Everything is possible. But the problem with knowing the warmth of the sun is how keenly you feel it's absence when it shines elsewhere. And a king must always shine elsewhere. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

25 " Women truly were the stronger gender. All the subtle games they had to play, the way they teased power from those around them! She had much to learn there. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

26 " was there not enough peril in the world already without the dangers of simply being a woman? "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

27 " I think," Guinevere said, making her voice as light and breezy as the summer day around them, "I have found my new preferred form of transportation. I will never walk again. Nor shall I ride horses. I want to be carried everywhere by a king. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

28 " If I fail, then it is over. My dream is dead. I have nothing to build a future around. And if I succeed... I step past everything I have known into everything I have wanted. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

29 " Men are hungry fools.
If they cannot eat it, wear it, or use it, they kill it anyway. They spread like fungus through the heart of the world. Lift a rock, and there: man.
But that is not quite right. At least fungus grows and feeds other life. Men only devour. Everywhere they reshape in their image. To their needs. Forests are felled for their homes. Fields are forced to bear their fruits, their grains, their decisions. A fungus only kills. Men change. Men demand order from nature. Men melt rocks and form metal, biting iron to pierce and slay. What can she do against such poison? "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

30 " She had never thought through the sheer logistics of this many people in a small space. Nor had she ever considered that a king would have to figure out how to deal with the chamber pots of a thousand citizens. In her head, it had been all swords and battles and glory and magic. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

31 " There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl on the cusp of womanhood. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

32 " He did what men always do. He wanted it, and so he claimed it. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

33 " We do not need a dark queen when we have so much darkness within ourselves. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

34 " Women are strongest when bearing one another's pain. We each take a little on ourselves. No one dies, and we all heal together. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

35 " But my king, is it proper?" Sir Bors frowned dubiously, his mustache drooping. "To be alone with her before you are wed? Women's passionate natures cannot be trusted."
Annoyed, she forgot to be a painting. "I shall protect his honor with my life," she answered drily. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

36 " Arthur was building something new. Something good. Something truly noble. And it drew those who could find that nowhere else. That was why most of his knights came. They could not find the justice and fairness they longed to defend in their own countries. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

37 " The dark queen knows darkness, but in the black, the claustrophobic fear of the dreamer snags her, tries to overtake her. She is the darkness, though. She has nothing to fear there. She cannot be trapped. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

38 " There was a dangerous magic in pretending. Pretend long enough, and who could say what was real? "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

39 " It was not easy, revolving around someone who did not revolve around her. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)

40 " An old, battered dragon was still a dragon, and the darkness had always loved them. "

― Kiersten White , The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)