The Kingdom of Sweets Quotes

“People make much of the bond of blood. Blood does matter, but it isn’t a saint’s pardon for all sins . . . though the blood of twins might be a different matter.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Was anyone ever content with the choices they made in youth? Perhaps not, or perhaps it had nothing to do with age. Perhaps we were all fools until life taught us better, showed us what had been before our eyes all along.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Clara could not see the hidden darkness of the world, but I could. I was cursed to see.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Oh, but that door. It was a hidden door, a secret door, and though I was no longer a child, I had not grown so great that I could not feel the allure of being Alice.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“In my books of fairy tales, spells never lasted forever, and they often broke of their own accord.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Bright Blue Water seemed to surround us, absolving us. And if I felt any sorrow, it was only for the years we had wasted in hating each. The great things we might have done, the adventures we could have had. We might have been anything, and gone anywhere. For in that moment it seemed we were both Dancers, both Pirates, both Duchesses and Knights. Clara had forgiven me, and I had forgiven her. And so at last we were together, both of us at the end, just as we were at the beginning. Free of the Queen's terrible country, As though we had never been divided. As though we'd passed through all of it, this wild theatrical of life and somehow come out whole on the other side. Silence set around us, soft and welcoming as a velvet curtain, and then all was still.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Not terrible. Not even bad-hearted, most of them. But fools, girl . . . men are such fools for beauty.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“He had laid upon me a depth of strangeness, something that might allow me to be content with the muted life I would lead in Clara's shadow.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“You humans would do well to mistrust your own dearest wishes, for these things never work out the way you believe they will. The way you hope they would.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“You humans would do well to mistrust your own dearest wishes. You humans would do well to mistrust your own dearest wishes, for these things never work out the way you believe they will. The way you they would.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“They did not trust me, our friends and neighbors, for they knew I knew them, and people don’t wish to be known.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peoples of your kind. But none of them knew me, not really, and for myself I have always enjoyed the quiet names, names bestowed in the heat of the moment, without thought of history or consequence.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“I began to discover many new things about the boy I loved, and none of them were good.”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets

“Who really knew, after all, how the old fairy tales died, or where the story might end?”
― Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets