Le Fay Quotes

“If I’ve learned anything, it’s that with loss, with mistakes, there is often a way forward, even if there is no way back.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“To honour the ones we love, or avenge them, we must survive.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“All empires fall, brother, and so too will yours.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Remember, the key to any glamour skill is belief. Believe you want to disappear. Intend to exist outside of mortal sight.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Dare not mention the Devil, lest he appear.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“I smiled for the first time in what felt like an age. I am destined to be the madwoman for eternity, but I will fear no man on this earth.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“This, where we stand here and now, is life. It’s joyous and awful and complicated, sometimes painful, but it’s real and true. Often, it doesn’t make sense—there isn’t always a move you can make to fix things, or a logical way out of a trap. But there’s always light to be found, if you would just turn halfway from the darkness.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Every life, in its entirety, can be found written upon the heart. So it can be read there in death, and lived again. I wonder if there’s any literal truth to it.’ ‘Ever the physician,’ Accolon said, with such proud affection I felt myself blush. He put a hand to his chest. ‘Perhaps that’s why the purest joy or pain is felt here.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“There were no words, no gestures great enough to restore what was lost, but that was not the purpose. My defiant soul had to learn that a desire for contentment in the face of loss was no sin, no matter how vast the failure. For the sake of everything else I loved, I must find a way to acceptance, and life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“You gave away my son and wanted me put on trial to save face. Which noble tenet was that?”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“I have been a despairing girl, a reluctant queen, a firebrand wife, a sister in need, a thwarted mother, an unrepentant lover, and have chosen defiance against this realm and its attempts to cage me. But I am no traitoress.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“At the sight of the cold fury in my eyes, his faint grip fell away and he recoiled, stiffening as if I held Medusa in my stare.
‘Don’t you dare speak my name’ I said.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“But the way they win is if they stop you from choosing your future.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“I have both given and taken, fixed and broken, wronged and been wronged, and never in my life have I stopped fighting for the freedom that is rightfully mine. For all this, I am not sorry.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“A flock of crows took flight from the treetops, sky filling with hard rasps and black feathers. Guided by their darkness, I emerged from the lake’s embrace, water raining from my sleeves, skirts and the ends of my hair; a deluge in the shape of a woman.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“dissipated until there was nothing but a quiet yet soaring euphoria, as if I could sprout wings from my shoulder blades and fly away on the wind.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Do you honestly think that after everything you’ve done, I would ever lower myself to be near you, sit next to your vainglorious throne, or God forbid, let you into my bed? I would rather die.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Urien chuckled. ‘That’s the Queen of Gore I know.’

‘Your Queen of Gore doesn’t exist. Maybe she never did.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“And they should fear me, the power I possessed, and the bright, ravenous rage that now fuelled my every breath. From that moment onwards, even I did not know what I was capable of.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“I would lay him to rest beside our lake, under this willow tree’s swaying leaves, and curl up with him there, until we were both stardust.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Cure and poison can often come from the same source.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“If it haunts us, we face the phantoms together.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Knowledge and magic. It has been within you all along.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay