The Queen and the Cure Quotes

“The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Come to me, and I will try to love you. I will try to love you, if you but come back.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“You are kind,” she said softly. “I am not kind,” Kjell scoffed. “And you are good,” she added. “I am not good!” he laughed. “I have never known a man like you.” “You were a slave in Quondoon! The men you knew were not trying to impress you.” “Neither are you, Captain. Yet I am still impressed.” “Then you have a lot to learn.” She”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first.” He”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I fell in love with you in pieces. Layer by layer, day by day, inch by inch.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I saw you,” she whispered, her body quaking and her fingers caressing his face. Kjell leaned in, filling his hands with her hair and his mouth with her kiss. “I saw you,” he said against her lips. “And I never looked away.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Come to me, and I will try to heal you. I will try to heal you, if you but come back,” Sasha sang softly, the melody sweet, the lyrics heartfelt, and it fell from her lips in a husky plea. “Come to me, and I will give you shelter, I will give you shelter, if you but come back,” he added, picking up where she left off. His lips brushed the lobe of her ear, and he felt the shudder that swept from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes. Her heart galloped, her skin grew damp beneath his, and he continued to chant, making the promise all over again. “Come to me, and I will try to love you. I will try to love you, if you but come back.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I have been hated before. But I don’t know if I’ve been loved. I think . . . once . . . I must have been, because I know how to love.” “Do”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“In the light everything is obvious. There are no secrets. You simply have to look in order to see.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Some things cannot be healed. They must simply be endured,”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“She mothered them. She mothered him.

He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She made him both jubilant and miserable, and he found himself waiting with irritation and anticipation each night for the moment the men gathered and looked at her with pleading eyes and she acquiesced, telling them stories like they were children around her knees.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“It was not your face I fell in love with. It was not your great, sad eyes or your soft mouth, or the gold flecks on your skin or the shape of your body.” His heart quaked and his stomach tightened, acknowledging that he relished those things too. “I fell in love with you in pieces. Layer by layer, day by day, inch by inch.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“That, my dear Kjell, is a good thing. The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Everything has an origin story. Every place. Every person. We come from the womb of a woman, who came from the womb of a woman, who came from the womb of a woman. We inherit gifts and weakness, we are born in triumph and strife, we are swaddled in kindness or indifference, and we are made to learn and walk among others who have their own origin stories, their own burdens, and their own history.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“I am not good.” He felt like weeping. He was not good. He was not generous. He was not courageous or compassionate. He simply loved her. And love made him a better man. That was all.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Sasha of Kilmorda, of Solemn, of Enoch, of the plains of Janda, of every place in between, will you be Sasha of Jeru?” “Sasha of Kjell?” she asked. “Sasha of Kjell,” he answered. “I am yours, remember?” she reminded him, as if she’d already said yes a thousand times. “And I am yours,” he whispered.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“There were no secrets, no sorrows, nothing hidden, nothing lost. They saw not what would be or what had been, but only what was.
She saw him.
He saw her.
And they saw nothing else.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Do you know how to hate?" he asked, his voice sharp, ricocheting through the chamber. "If you don't know how to hate, how could you possibly know how to love?"
"I don't have to know how to die to know how to live," she said simply, and he found he has no response.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“His heart began to pound, and his anger--at himself, at Sasha, at his father, at the Creator, at the very world he was born into--bubbled inside him. He was not a man who loved or nurtured. He'd been given a gift that was so at odds with who he was that he wanted to howl in frustration and sink his sword into something lethal.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“He felt like weeping. He was not good. He was not generous. He was not courageous or compassionate. He simply loved her. And love made him a better man. That was all.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Maybe pleasure feels like joy. But pleasure can be satisfied, and joy never needs to be. It is a glory all its own,” she said.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“The Gifts we are given are not given for our benefit but for the benefit of mankind.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“How can I feel so much when you feel so little?”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“Do you know how to hate?” he asked, his voice sharp, ricocheting through the chamber. “If you don’t know how to hate, how could you possibly know how to love?” “I don’t have to know how to die to know how to live,’ she said simply, and he found he had no response.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“There is only one thing in this whole, godforsaken world that would make me want to be bloody King of Caarn. One. Thing.” He raised a finger and jabbed it toward her. “You! I would be the court jester and wear striped hose and paint on my face if it meant I could be near you.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“It was as if he’d battled the sea all his life only to discover he had scales and gills and belonged beneath the depths instead of casting nets. He no longer knew who he was or what his purpose might be. Or maybe he knew and just didn’t like it.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“It was not your face I fell in love with. It was not your great, sad eyes or your soft mouth, or the gold flecks on your skin or the shape of your body.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure

“But the woman who attended him looked like Ariel of Firi—it was the look he thought he preferred—with dusky skin and full lips, round hips and heavy breasts. Her thick, black hair was arranged in fat ropes down her back, and he found himself wishing it was unbound, the curls untamed. When she looked up at him, her eyes carefully lined in kohl and heavy-lidded with pretended ardor, he felt nothing but self-loathing. He immediately sent her away.”
― Amy Harmon, The Queen and the Cure