A Crown This Cold and Heavy Quotes

“The price of love was loss. We all paid it eventually.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“He stared down at me like he would burn the world for me. What he didn’t seem to understand was that I would do the same for him.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It’s much easier to give advice about other people’s lives than it is to navigate your own.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Even if the fates hadn’t tied us together, I would have chosen her every day for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Your heart doesn’t stop beating when you lose someone you love. The world doesn’t end. It just feels like it does.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Falling in love with Prisca was the most inconvenient thing to ever happen to me. And if I had never met her, I would have lived a long, empty life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“The tears I couldn’t shed were drowning me, and I was gasping for breath.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I had no idea my kisses were that powerful, even then.” “In another life. That was what you said.” I gave him a mock scowl. “And then you insisted on this one instead.” His huge palm cupped my cheek, tilting my face up. “In every life, wildcat. No matter what happens, you hold on to that. It’s you and me in every life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“What do you want?” It was my turn to smile. “I want chaos.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It was ironic, really—the experiences that came the closest to breaking you were the same experiences that built you into someone new. Surviving one experience meant you were more likely to survive the next.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Just when I’d thought I could no longer be surprised by the ignorance, foolishness, and poor judgment of men, they continued to prove me wrong.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“You smell like home.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It was ironic, really—the experiences that came the closest to breaking you were the same experiences that built you into someone new. Surviving one experience meant you were more likely to survive the next. And so it continued, life unfurling in a tapestry of trials.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I had two choices—face it and live a rich, full life, or hide from it and never truly experience the joy and happiness of loving with everything in me. The price of love was loss. We all paid it eventually.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I’d never dreamed I would have a mate. After everything I’ve done, I imagined such a gift was reserved for those whose hands weren’t covered in blood. I ignored any signs of our mating—even though all I wanted was you.” “Why?” “Because I knew I wasn’t worthy of being a mate. I could never be worthy of you. By the time the knowledge had truly hit me, I was in love with you. And I knew I would never recover if you stayed with me simply because of our mating. I needed you to choose me, Prisca. Because I would choose you ten thousand times over, every day for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Did I undermine your rescue plan with my own audacious, highly impressive escape?” His eyebrows furrowed. I smirked at him. “As much as I would have enjoyed waiting for you to stroll into that prison and slaughter everyone in sight, I had things to do.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Promise me, Pris. You get out, and you don’t let them break you. You don’t let this break you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“His eyes glittered. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Every little girl should think her father was a hero.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“It was ironic, really—the experiences that came the closest to breaking you were the same experiences that built you into someone new.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I will make them pay, brother.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I can twist time whenever I like, and everyone will just…stop. But sometimes, more than anything, I wish I could be the one to pause. To be frozen for just a few seconds while the world goes on without me.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“The answer, by the way, is yes.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I needed you to choose me, Prisca. Because I would choose you ten thousand times over, every day for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“When the land itself repels war and unnatural clouds obscure the sun… When the waves are coerced…and reflection deceives… The Bloodthirsty Prince will die.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I don’t care.” The rest of the world could fucking burn.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Some people only cared when either they, or someone they loved, were affected.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Perhaps that was all we could hope for. That when we died, we would be known for our kindness.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“The price of love was loss.

We all paid it eventually.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Denial might seem the easier path, brushing aside these truths as mere fabrication. Yet, a moment of reckoning is upon each of us.

Will you rise, defending future generations and guarding the innocent? Or will you allow [his] lies to destroy the little goodness left on this continent?

Choose wisely.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy