The Red Star Society Quotes

“The love that existed between Ferdinand Bauer and Ephraim Holst was unrivaled. The maestro and the singer. Gods, the stars would never forget how Ferdinand could sing.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“Ephraim did not care whether he heard singing ever again. No voice could be as beautiful, no tenor as bright, and no lips as perfectly formed as his Ferdinand’s—and they would never grace the halls again. Such dismal, empty chambers lacking life and luster—for all the gilded molding and brightly painted walls, for all the murals on the arched ceilings and tapestries draped beside ostentatiously tall windows—it was no longer a palace. It was a tomb.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“I hope that I am the last royal astronomer this palace ever sees.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“It is at this point that I will address a remarkable force of nature that has been sorely neglected in my narrative up until this point. There is a pirate by the name of Sweeney, known for one reason or another to be a proven terror on the high seas and a canker in the mouth of every monarch from here to Simisola.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“I do not know how to help [Ephraim]. I suspect that none of us do, although we love him, and we fear he will be the next target of the queen’s wrath.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“There is no one who is more melancholy or full of self-loathing than Cahal.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“The Queen’s Huntsman is Fabian Wruck. She gifted him both names, with the latter translating loosely to mean ‘cantankerous’. Which, I find, turned out to be very well-suited.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“There is nothing I can say about Hester Primus that would be flattering.
He is hated, and he deserves every bit of it.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine

“Jules has the patience of a saltwater crocodile, willing to wait for the opportune moment to snap.
Am I immune to their enchantments? Absolutely not. Have I tried to be? Certainly, no.”
― Sirius ., The Red Star Society: The Intimate Journals, Letters, and Recollections of Her Majesty's Astronomer Sopespian Slaine