A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty Quotes

“It will take more than a few arrows to kill me.” “What would it take?” I asked, curious despite myself. “Given your wicked temper, I think I’ll keep that information to myself, wildcat.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I’ve gone my whole life feeling like I’m holding my breath. Like my lungs are burning. Like I’m desperately fighting for each gasp of air. But when you’re around, I can…breathe. And I’m furious at you, because when that ends…when we’re forced apart, I don’t know how I’ll take a full breath without you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“All the boy heard was that he was too much. Too much, and yet not enough.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“You can raise all the walls between us that you like. I’ll knock them down one by one. In the end, it will be us, wildcat.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“This is never going to work. You and I. We’re doomed. You know that.” He sighed, and I closed my eyes, basking in the feel of his breath against my neck. “I know.” He slowly drew back. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t wish for you with every fucking breath for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“And if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces. ​— ​DERRY GIRLS”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Men. So utterly predictable with their insistence on diminishing women to girls in an attempt to belittle us.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I told you, wildcat. I’ll always find you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I once told you that until you faced up to the reality of your life, you would continue to be a victim to it. And my reality is this—I’m in love with you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“It makes me hard when you defy me, wildcat. One day soon, I’m going to make you suffer for every snide comment you’ve said. For every moment you refused to listen.” I curled my lip at him. “Threatening torture? And you wonder why I don’t trust you?” “Oh no,” he purred. “You know I’d never torture you, wildcat.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Hate me, rage against me, refuse to admit what you feel. But don’t you dare treat me like a stranger.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Nothing hardened a woman like betrayal from a man she’d trusted. And then men had the audacity to call us cold.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“You can tell yourself whatever makes it easiest for you to hate me, wildcat. But it was real. All of it.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“And if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Regner has been paying close attention to the way people behave. To their thoughts and fears. Particularly when those people are struggling to survive.” The boy frowned, confused, and Conreth waved his hand. “The way someone worships their gods—and the gods they choose to worship—is a personal choice for most. But a clever ruler will use religion to play on their emotions. Their desires. And their fears. They will promise either eternal happiness or the avoidance of suffering—here or in the afterlife. You will find it is surprisingly easy for someone to use a population’s fear of the unknown—and their poor education—to control them with lies.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“That woman could find mortal danger in an empty, freshly plowed field.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“You make me feel ancient. Why is it that the young like to take one piece of information and use it to change everything else their instincts tell them to be true?”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Why is it that men are considered to be cunning planners, while women are usually called conniving schemers, do you think?”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I wanted to shake her until her teeth rattled.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“But our mating—rare as it was—was a gift. The other half of our soul waiting for us to love. To cherish. I wanted that. With her. And if there was one thing I had, it was patience. I could wait. At least, for a little while.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“No. Because I want to gut anyone who made you cry. And I don’t want to have to impale myself on my own sword.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“It was almost amusing. Those who believed they were safe because they stood with the tyrant were only fooling themselves. In the game of power, everyone was a pawn, and no one was exempt from sacrifice.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“As soon as I have that amulet, I will come for you. I promise.” She took a deep breath. “I’m holding you to that promise.” “I told you, wildcat. I’ll always find you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I’ll allow you to come with me to find the hourglass, but the moment it’s in my hands, you go after the amulet.” “Why would I make such a deal?” “Because you respect me and you know if I wanted, I could leave you at any time.” “Perhaps I would simply follow you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“No one gets to choose if you’re worthy of that crown except you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Nourish the spark of your rage, Nelayra.” “Why?” “When you have to, you will change the worlds. If I have to torture you to convince you that you’re the only one who can do it…”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Don’t cry. Gods, don’t cry.” She sniffed, glowering up at me. “Why? Are my feelings too much for you?” “No. Because I want to gut anyone who made you cry. And I don’t want to have to impale myself on my own sword.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“He didn’t look impressed. But I was becoming less and less interested in whether the powerful men I was coming into contact with found me acceptable.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“You will find it is surprisingly easy for someone to use a population’s fear of the unknown—and their poor education—to control them with lies.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“If you’re ever taken, I will find you. No matter how long it takes.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty