The Trouble with Kings Quotes

“Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings

“Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings

“We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason."
"And—?"
"And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings

“No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings

“Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy’s perimeter, and attack.”
“What does that mean, exactly?”
“Oh, I don’t know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings

“It was difficult to tell if she actually had a good singing voice because she added so many flourishes and trills that she sounded like a bag of demented parakeets.”
― Sherwood Smith, The Trouble with Kings