Three Dark Crowns Quotes

“Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends

Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“I want revenge." She whispers, and her fingers trail bloody streaks down Natalia's arms.
"And then I want my crown.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Every gift is light and dark.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“No one really wishes to be a queen.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“It would be sweet to be cared for despite her faults, and to be wanted for her person rather than the power she comes with.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Her whole life they have thought her a failure, yet at the first hint of hope, they move to follow her, as if it is what they wanted all along.
Perhaps it was.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Only a king-consort is fool enough to love a queen, he says quietly.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“In her mind, every last Queen lies at the bottom of the sea, drowned by the Goddess the moment she was done with them.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Queens do not remember these things,"
"Saying so does not make it true."
"You will need it to be true, for it is too cruel otherwise, to force a Queen to kill what she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“I am your servant," he answers, and touches her cheek. "I am your slave. I am here to make sure every one of the suitors does not think of either of your sisters before they think of you.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“That’s what they call you, on the mainland. Witches. That’s what my father says that you are. Monsters. Beasts. But you are not a monster.” “No,” she says quietly. “And neither are the rest”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“I saved you,' she says. 'I will not let you die.'
She kisses him hungrily, her touch waking him up, pulling him out of the dark. He feels like he belongs in her arms. She will not let him die. She will make them both warm.
She will set them both on fire.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“I don't think it is strange at all,' Arsinoe says. 'Don't you see? It has to be one of us. It has to be her. My whole life I have heard that it has to be her. That I have to die, so that she can lead. That I do not matter, because she's here.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Only a king consort is fool enough to love a queen”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“The sisters she loved at the Black Cottage are gone. Arsinoe saw her chance and she took it. So next time, Mirabella will take hers aswell.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“He seems to be a bird of few words.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“His eyes, when they meet hers, are like the storm. Perhaps he is not a boy at all, but some elemental thing, made by the crashing water and the endless thunder.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“The fools. But just because they are fools does not mean they are not a threat.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Do you want to see it?” She touches her face.

“Are we little boys now?” he asks. “Comparing scabs?”

“If we were, I would win.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Arsinoe hides everything behind the same easygoing smirk.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“We are all dual natured, Queen Mirabella. Every gift is light and dark. We naturalists can make things grow, but we also coax lobsters into pots, and our familiars tear rabits to shreds. Elementals burn down forests as easily as they water them with rain. The war gift is for protection as well as slaughter. Even those with the sight are often cursed with madness and paranoia. Even the poisoners are also healers.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“For it is too cruel otherwise, to force a queen to kill that which she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head.” When”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“As she watches, a woman with dark red hair throws her head back. For a moment her molars- as well as her throat, as if her jaw has come unhinged- are visible. In Katharine's ears polite chatter turns to wails, and the ballroom is filled with glittering monsters.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“It will not be easy for him to see her dead, should they become close. But she has so few friends. She cannot turn one away.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“It was only a joke, Mia,” says Bree gently. “Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“Three Black Witches are born in a glen, Sweet little triplets Will never be friends. ‘Three Black Witches, all fair to be seen. Two to devour, And one to be queen.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns