The Queen of Blood Quotes

“Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they’re made. It’s not time to regret them; it’s time to live with the consequences.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.
Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.
Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.
Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.
Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.
Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,
rend you, tear you, kill you dead.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Daleina would not be kept from her fate. She’d run toward it, arms open, and kick fate in the face.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without the dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Coming home is hard." Ven said.
"It shouldn't be" Daleina said. "They love me. I love them. It should be easy."
"Once you leave, it's never easy again. Or at least it's never the same. You're not the same. You can't expect them to be.
She nodded. "Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I'd die to protect them.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“They love me. I love them. It should be easy.”
“Once you leave, it’s never easy again. Or at least it’s never the same. You’re not the same. You can’t expect them to be.”
She nodded. “Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I’d die to protect them.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Know me," Ven said as he drove knife after knife into the spirit's body, "for I am death to all oathbreakers, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Straight-faced, Hamon said, "I'm honored to be working alongside someone with such expert woodland knowledge, superior battle skills, and an impressive beard."
Ven stroked his beard. "Indeed you are.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“The people called it the Coronation Massacre, and Daleina knew there were songs written about it and about her, the Queen of Blood, who’d been crowned in loss and sorrow.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Her voice sounded wistful, but Ven didn't trust it. She was a master at shielding her emotions. For all he knew, this pleasant greeting hid murderous rage.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute,”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked.
There was always a broken doll.
Why did there always have to be a damn doll?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“I wanted it, then I didn't, and now I truly don't. But it's mine. And I will make sure that if I am the queen of blood; That blood will have meant something....she looked out to the people of Aratay and allowed herself to feel hope.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Of the incredibly ambitious Queen Merecot of Semo.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“She has become a queen of blood,”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood

“Rot beneath the veneer.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood