The Seventh Princess Quotes

“Anger is poison. Maybe”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Keep shaking your ass”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Oh, shut up, Pigman.” “Wereboar to you, Princess. I eat pigs for breakfast. Or at least for dinner. And midday meal. Well, yes, and sometimes breakfast.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Sure, Mo-O would be mad as a shark on a mountain. But the dragon wasn’t going to hurt her, and Namaka had learned a long time ago—if she wanted anything out of life, she had to seize it when she could. One day soon her duty would be to travel from village to village, offering her protection, blessings, and body to the people.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“She could sanctify marriages. She could do anything she wanted. She ruled the Valley Isle, and yet, she never felt quite free. She never would be free, she supposed. She could change anyone’s fate save her own. “I’m going to the races. Now.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“And so Kāne flooded the Earth, leaving only a few archipelagos like Sawaiki. But the god Kū escaped the floods and came here and planted his banana in a Golden Cloud. Repeatedly.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Don’t play like the other children—train for when you get your powers. Don’t fall in love at your own pace—choose a mate within a week of your seventeenth birthday. Don’t live for yourself—exist for the island, for the clan.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Maybe Mo-O’s refusal to let Namaka go was somehow meant to protect her. But gods damn it, if she was going to be courted by every man in Hamoa Village—perhaps in every village on the Valley Isle—she was at least going to try to enjoy it. Which meant she’d made a new pa’u skirt, woven flowers into her hair, and was going to be there to watch a canoe race held in her honor.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess

“Mo-O-Inanea, her dragon nursemaid, looked like an overgrown monitor lizard, about five paces long from nose to tail. Earth dragons were much smaller than the great sea dragons of legend, the taniwha, but also much kinder toward humans.”
― Matt Larkin, The Seventh Princess