The Legendary Inge Quotes

“I was honestly trying to decide if I could wish you happiness with another man, or if someone in your village needed to have an unfortunate accident. It was a serious moral delimma.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“To show mercy?” Inge finished. “You think he deserves it?” Raske shook his head. “None of us deserves it. That’s the whole point.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“My father used to say it was cyclical, that prosperity would breed corruption, which would in turn breed calamity.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Forget- me- not’— I like that for a dagger. It leaves a lasting impression.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Just enjoy the ride,” Nea told Inge. “None of us knows what lies at the end of it, so there’s no point worrying.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“I wish you no ill, truly.”

“And yet, you’re trying to smash my head to pieces,”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Your father would murder me from beyond the grave if I somehow got you killed, even if it wasn’t technically my fault.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“It’s rubbish— I already told you that!” he added when he saw that she was about to burst with fury. “It’s just, once someone’s decided that they want to believe something, that’s what they’ll believe.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Am I under suspicion for something?”

“Should you be?”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“People don’t like when others live differently.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Inge glanced one last time at her family before a bend in the road obscured them from view. The twins had resumed play-fighting in the yard. Sassa and Lisbet stood alongside Nea, who wore a wickedly triumphant grin on her face. Inge missed them already. She turned her gaze forward”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“To be sure, Inge was trying to deceive her, but Inge was trying to deceive herself just as much.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“She drifted off to sleep amid thoughts of swords and family, longing for former days— days that could never be reclaimed.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“What would you have done?”

“I’m probably not the best person to ask,” Raske replied. “I firmly believe in justified bloodshed.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“The captain left with his back straight and his nose in the air. In his wake, Dagmar poked her head around the doorframe. “You never can tell with His Majesty, can you?”after which she retreated to the mystical trappings of her tower.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“The great sorrow of Ingrid Norling was that she was not Ingrid Norling at all. The surname had been adopted in the middle of the night,”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“As I said, magic is neither good nor evil. It depends on the magician.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“I must believe there was some purpose, even if I sometimes regret that I was not given a stronger virtue, like courage or determination.” “Mercy’s a strong virtue,” said Inge wryly. “At any rate, it’s better than obedience or patience.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“In that instant, all of Gunnar’s thoughts distilled into one pressing issue. “Inge, your hair!”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“He studied her again, and she made a conscious effort not to look suspicious, which was probably suspicious in its own right.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“If you go anywhere near that filthy old man,” Inge said fiercely, “I’ll have you thrown into the king’s dungeons!” She spoiled her threat the next moment by asking, “Does the king even have dungeons, Colonel Raske?”
"He does, but stocks are a more common punishment for insubordinate soldiers.”
“But I can still order him to the dungeons, can’t I?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“That didn’t answer my question.”
“I know it didn’t.” She brushed past him and continued on, uncaring of whether he followed.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“They came with stately airs, family by family, pomposity rolling off them”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“What a pity there had been nothing handy to throw at him.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge

“Certainly one of his men had just found him in an infinitely humiliating situation, but Gunnar was demonstrating a sufficient level of terror. It probably hadn’t even occurred to him to ask how two small boys had managed to overpower a seasoned warrior in the first place.”
― Kate Stradling, The Legendary Inge