Princess of Thorns Quotes

“What? Is something wrong?"

"You're ominous-looking is all. Like a plague rider. Or Death's little brother."

"Really? Are you scared?"

"Terrified."

"Don't be afraid, Niklaaaaasssss. Death has not come for you tonight."

"Stop that."

"Why? Death only wantssss to be friendssss."

"There's something damaged in that head of yours.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“I am only a child, too innocent to realize that there is no salvation without darkness, no triumph that doesn't carry the seeds of its own destruction bouncing in its pocket.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“Last night was what love is supposed to feel like, terrifying and beautiful and so close you're afraid you'll lose a piece of yourself, but you don't. You gain a piece of the person you love instead, a piece that makes you stronger and happier than you could have imagined possible.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“I'll be a girl...pretending to be a boy...pretending to be a girl. The thought alone is enough to make me dizzy.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“Hand to hand, no swords or staffs?"

"I figured that was the only fair way for us to fight." She crosses to the ladder and steps onto the top rung. "Seeing as I possess superior skill in armed combat."

I snort and reach for my pants, suddenly more inspired about this sparring match. "In your dreams, runt."

"In your nightmares," she says with a wink as she disappears down the ladder.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“My first thought is to tell him to take his "help" and shove it so far between his [butt] cheeks he'll waddle down the road—I stopped speaking like a princess the day I began training as a warrior—but I bite my lip.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“And perhaps, if men were brought up to be gentler people, women wouldn't have need of protectors. Have you ever thought of that?"

I shake my head. "Men aren't going to change, Ror. Men are what they are.”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“The only thing scarier than feeling so alone is fearing you’ll always feel that way, that no one will ever see you for all the things you are, and the things you’re afraid to be, and the person you want so desperately to become”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns

“I never get drunk. Never. Iss the beer's fault. I'm strong, but the beer must be sssssstrooooooong.-Niklass”
― Stacey Jay, Princess of Thorns