The Children of the King Quotes

“In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King

“I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King

“Bad people aren't happy. . . Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations. . . but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King

“You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King

“The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King

“Nonethless it had been a castle, with all that this implies: it had had towering walls and turrets, beams as great as trees, arched doorways wide enough for processions to pass through, ceilings so cavernous that owls nested in them. It had had wings and ramparts and thin windows from which to shoot arrows, internal courtyards, banquet rooms, hidden doors, secret passages. It had had a chapel and, in its bowels, a dungeon. It housed sculptures and paintings, tapestries and cushions, carpets and carvings, its fortressed heart had been clad in glit, silver, glass, gold, damask, ivory, ermine.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Children of the King