Blood of Wonderland Quotes

“Wars," he reminded her, "are won in the mind, not on the field.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“We become who we must to overcome pain and to make things right again.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“There was a freedom in having nothing to lose”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“This was who she was, who she had always been. She was no one's daughter, no one's warrior, no one's scapegoat or prisoner. She wasn't a spoiled princes or the savior of a foreign people. Dinah raised her eyes to the circling stars, and her shadow straightened in accordance. I am the queen, she thought.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“I'm afraid I'll die silently and quietly, like the flame blown from a match, and I'll be nothing more than a child who played at war.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“No man fights or dies for a leader. He dies for an ideal.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“For many of us, there is only one person who can fill the space of our heart.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“War was, at its most basic level, the great reassigning of positions - a king who could become a prisoner, a princess who could become a casualty of war.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“I am the Queen of Hearts, born to sit on one of two Heart thrones. I am the Queen of Wonderland and I will have the crown that my brother made for me. I will take it with fury and swords and whatever help I can find. Pride blossomed in her chest, and every inch of her skin felt alive with promise and purpose.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“She was no longer the princess who loved to watch pink snowflakes swirling down from the cloudy sky, one who could command the bowed knee of every person in the room.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“You’re not listening. You don’t understand. Dinah, I would do anything for you!” “Except truly love me in the way a man should love a woman,” she replied coldly. “Except kiss me.” “Does that even matter?” Dinah let out a hysterical laugh. “Does that matter? Does it matter?” She bent over, shallow prickly laughs tearing her into pieces. “It was the only thing that ever mattered, Wardley.” Wardley closed his eyes and whispered to her, his words drifting off in the wind, blowing away with every light dream she had ever had. “I am yours in every other way . . . you are my best friend . . . my queen.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“Dinah looked out over the landscape, so enchanting, a world of soft pink bubbles and warm light. She shrugged. “It feels like love.” “And that’s why it’ll kill yeh,” replied Sir Gorrann,”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“Her life was like nightfire—a place that once burned with bright hope, now nothing more than a flickering blackness, her suffering invisible to the naked eye.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“She was here, in the middle of the wilderness. She was starving, she was broken and bleeding, and there was a Spade literally standing on her back. All this and yet Dinah felt more in control of her fate than she had the past few months at the palace. There was a freedom in having nothing to lose.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“This was who she was, who she had always been. She was no one’s daughter, no one’s warrior, no one’s scapegoat or prisoner. She wasn’t a spoiled princess or the savior of a foreign people. Dinah raised her eyes to the circling stars, and her shadow straightened in accordance.

I am the queen.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland

“Dinah was given piles of edible mushrooms, each one producing a unique effect - some made her melancholy, while others made her silly. Some produced a feeling of intense passion that climaxed in seconds and left her breathless, clutching the table. One gave her a hallucination of the palace, filled with thumping red hearts and fluttering peacocks, Another showed her a river of blood, soaking her feet. The effects weren't lasting - most were no more than a minute - so Dinah eagerly awaited what each new mushroom would bring.”
― Colleen Oakes, Blood of Wonderland