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Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1) QUOTES

Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1) QUOTES

1 " It will not be easy for him to see her dead, should they become close. But she has so few friends. She cannot turn one away. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

2 " If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

3 " I saved you,' she says. 'I will not let you die.'
She kisses him hungrily, her touch waking him up, pulling him out of the dark. He feels like he belongs in her arms. She will not let him die. She will make them both warm.
She will set them both on fire. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

4 " I don't think it is strange at all,' Arsinoe says. 'Don't you see? It has to be one of us. It has to be her. My whole life I have heard that it has to be her. That I have to die, so that she can lead. That I do not matter, because she's here. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

5 " One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

6 " It would be sweet to be cared for despite her faults, and to be wanted for her person rather than the power she comes with. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

7 " The sisters she loved at the Black Cottage are gone. Arsinoe saw her chance and she took it. So next time, Mirabella will take hers aswell. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

8 " I want revenge." She whispers, and her fingers trail bloody streaks down Natalia's arms.
"And then I want my crown. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

9 " Only a king-consort is fool enough to love a queen, he says quietly. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

10 " Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends

Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

11 " Every gift is light and dark. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

12 " No one really wishes to be a queen. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

13 " Her whole life they have thought her a failure, yet at the first hint of hope, they move to follow her, as if it is what they wanted all along.
Perhaps it was. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

14 " In her mind, every last Queen lies at the bottom of the sea, drowned by the Goddess the moment she was done with them. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

15 " Queens do not remember these things,"
"Saying so does not make it true."
"You will need it to be true, for it is too cruel otherwise, to force a Queen to kill what she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

16 " I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

17 " I am your servant," he answers, and touches her cheek. "I am your slave. I am here to make sure every one of the suitors does not think of either of your sisters before they think of you. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

18 " That’s what they call you, on the mainland. Witches. That’s what my father says that you are. Monsters. Beasts. But you are not a monster.” “No,” she says quietly. “And neither are the rest "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

19 " Only a king consort is fool enough to love a queen "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)

20 " Arsinoe hides everything behind the same easygoing smirk. "

― Kendare Blake , Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)