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Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1) QUOTES

Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1) QUOTES

1 " She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

2 " The boy was the sun in Coriane's sky. On hard days, he split the darkness. On good days, he lit the world. When Tibe went away to the front, for weeks at a time now that the war ran hot again, Cal kept her safe. Only a few months old and better than any shield in the kingdom. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

3 " Such words were better suited to midnight, when two girls could whisper their dreams without fear of consequence. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

4 " A strange prince, an even stranger night, she wrote later. I don't know if I ever want to see him again. But he seemed lonely too. Should we not be lonely together? "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

5 " There is no greater pain or punishment than memory. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

6 " There is nothing so terrible as a story untold. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

7 " Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal’s flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

8 " How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

9 " The Calores are children of fire, as strong and destructive as their flame, but Cal will not be like the others before. Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal's flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war. The guns will quiet, the smoke will clear, and the soldiers, Red and Silver both, will come home. One hundred years of war, and my son will bring peace. He will not die fighting. He will not. HE WILL NOT. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

10 " Today Tibe said he loves me, that he wants to marry me. I do not believe him. Why would he want such a thing? I am no one of consequence. No great beauty or intellect, no strength or power to aid his reign. I bring nothing to him but worry and weight. He needs someone strong at his side, a person who laughs at the gossips and overcomes her own doubts. Tibe is as weak as I am, a lonely boy without a path of his own. I will only make things worse. I will only bring him pain. How can I do that? "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

11 " She looked to the roses, but it was Tibe's face she saw. It was familiar now, after months of friendship. She knew his nose, his lips, his jaw, his eyes most of all. They stirred something in her, a connection she did not know she could make with another person. She saw herself in them, her own pain, her own joy. We are the same, she thought. Searching for something to keep us anchored, both alone in a crowded room. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

12 " Only when someone else sees worth in me does he condescend to do the same. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

13 " But there is a difference between a single candle in darkness, and a sunrise. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

14 " The next morning, a maid found her bridal crown broken on the floor, an explosion of pearls and twisted gold. There was silver on it, blood dark from the passing hours.
And her bathwater was black with it.

The diary ended unfinished, unseen by any who deserved to read it.
Only Elara saw its pages, and the slow unravelling of the woman inside.

She destroyed the book like she destroyed Coriane.
And she dreamed of nothing. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

15 " Not to mention the fact that your uncle seems determined to drink away the coffers of House Jacos.” Another swig of gin. Coriane almost laughed at the irony. “How selfish. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

16 " Something tightened in Coriane’s chest, an unfamiliar sensation. Was it . . . happiness? She thought so. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

17 " He only asks what he already knows the answer to. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

18 " We might be noble, but this man could buy us all if he wanted. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

19 " Coriane did her best to pick pick pick at her meal. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

20 " Forgive me if I’m surprised. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)