Queen's Gambit Quotes

“There are events in life from which we learn our most profound lessons and sometimes those events are the ones of which we are most ashamed.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“What are we if we are not words?”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the longest, contriving always that Edward’s should be the winner. He is learning from an early age that the world conspires magically to favor him. After all, he will be King one day and that is the way of things for kings.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“But none notice that she is moving with difficulty through a world that is tipped on its side, or see that she fears falling off its edge.”
― Elizabeth Freemantle, Queen's Gambit

“It strikes her suddenly how it must have been for those men trapped in the bowels of that great ship, sinking down to their watery grave, and how they are all the same when it comes to the end of it. From the Vice-Admiral right down to the lad who scrubs the decks - when you go, you are brought to nothing, regardless of how high you have climbed.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“Is it love? If so, love has no logic to it; it can appear out of animosity as a flower might miraculously push itself through a crack in brick.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“and he is missing his cap—a faux pas that would, were he not the Queen’s brother and so terrifying seething with anger, have barred his admittance from her presence.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“beautiful.” “You are the first,” adds Cat. “The first Queen to publish your own words in English. This makes history, Kit.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit