The Red Queen Quotes

“True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather...Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Red Queen

“If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Red Queen: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book 7

“They feared one another because they knew what they were capable of doing, and maybe in some cases, had done. The more weapons they created, the more frightened they would have been of the weapons they imagined their enemies had created, and so they strove to make worse weapons, to discourage any attack. I don’t think any of them imagined anyone would dare to use them and yet what other end could there be to it all?’ ‘They”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Red Queen