“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“I want revenge." She whispers, and her fingers trail bloody streaks down Natalia's arms.
"And then I want my crown.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Every gift is light and dark.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“No one really wishes to be a queen.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Only a king-consort is fool enough to love a queen, he says quietly.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Only a king consort is fool enough to love a queen”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“His eyes, when they meet hers, are like the storm. Perhaps he is not a boy at all, but some elemental thing, made by the crashing water and the endless thunder.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“It was only a joke, Mia,” says Bree gently. “Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“For it is too cruel otherwise, to force a queen to kill that which she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head.” When”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Arsinoe hides everything behind the same easygoing smirk.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“But Jules will not give up. Not even if it is the queens' sixteenth birthday, and Beltane is in four months' time, falling like a shadow.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“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, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Queen Mirabella stands at the altar of the Goddess. Sweating, but not from heat. Elementals are not bothered much by temperature, and if they were, no one inside could complain of being warm.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“How she poisoned her sisters so slyly and quietly that it took them days to die. How when it was over they looked so peaceful that had it not been for the froth on their lips, you would have thought they had died in their sleep.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be grinning.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Wolf Spring s not a city of finery. It is of fishers and farmers and folk on the docks, and no one wears their fine blacks except on Beltane.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
“Except for the severe coloring, Arsinoe does not look much like a queen. Her hair is rough, and they cannot keep her from cutting it. Her black trousers are the same ones she wears everyday, and so is her light black jacket. The only piece of finery they could get her into for the occasion was a new scarf that Madrigal found at Pearson's, made from the wool of their fancy, flop-eared rabbits.”
― Kendare Blake, quote from Three Dark Crowns
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“Огромная часть нашей жизни зависит от совершения трудных действий в тот момент, когда этого меньше всего хочется.”
― Dan Waldschmidt, quote from Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success
“Someday you will grow up and find that there will be times in your life that you will feel hatred and vengeance and then some days you will be forgiving and understanding.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.”
― Ellen Potter, quote from The Kneebone Boy
“The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.”
― Thomas Sweeney, quote from The Harem
“You want the party line or the real answer?” “You know what I want.” His eyes shine as he shakes his head. “Penn, these girls…they’re not the girls we went to school with, okay? There’s a group of girls here who have a club called the Bald Eagles. Know why?” “Do I want to know?” “They all shave their pussies.” “Is that a big deal?” Wade raises his eyebrows. “They’re in the eighth grade.” “Jesus.” Even in our frankest discussions, Mia and I have not gotten to this level of detail. “And the juniors and seniors? Man, they put it right in your face. Day in and day out. Sex is no big deal to them. I’ll be honest with you, Penn, the hardest thing I’ve ever done is said no to the girls who’ve come on to me in this office. I’ve had ’em start changing clothes right in front of me, like they forgot I was here, then ask if I want to see more.” Wade’s honesty surprises me. But is he playing me as well? “Do you always say no, Wade?” His jaw tightens. “Yessir, I do. Know why?” “Why?” “My mama taught me one lesson. Don’t shit where you eat.” He glances at the door again. “I need this job, Penn. And screwing a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old would eventually lose it for me. Because these girls can’t handle what they’re playing with. They have sex, but they don’t understand what it really is,”
― Greg Iles, quote from Turning Angel
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