Two Dark Reigns Quotes

“Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“With her weakening gift, she could be burned, and Arsinoe imagines that for a girl who used to dance with fire, there could be nothing worse.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“None of us are ever who we think we are.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“You don’t threaten the life of a queen and live to tell the tale.” She flips the knife, catches it. “Taking the life of a queen… now that is another matter”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“A queen once crowned," Luca says, "is crowned forever.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“This is the Legion Queen,” Mathilde says to the frozen crowd. “The strongest naturalist in ten generations. The strongest warrior in two hundred years. She is the one who will fight for all the gifts. She is the one who will change everything.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“You loved him more. I always knew that. And he loved you." Mirabella shakes her head. "He never really loved me."
For a moment Jules is silent. Then she turns and looks at her, dead-on.
"You must think I'm really small, to think that would make me glad.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“The truth of you is yet to come . . . I know only that you were once a queen and may be again.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“Hope is for fools . . . Not long ago I hoped for everything, and look what has become of me, and those I loved.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“It’s a nice story. Something new. The poisoners off the throne. But it’s only a story. A dream, and I’ve dreamed those kinds of dreams before. They don’t work out.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“There is nothing a warrior loves more than to run into a battle headlong with little chance of victory. That is where the glory is, they say. That is where heroes are made. Jules has never heard anything quite so stupid.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“Maybe the madness of the legion curse is nothing but a lie spread by the temple.”
“Why would they lie?”
“To keep anyone from being as powerful as you could be.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“Why would you?” Arsinoe asks crossly. “Queens whelp babies, but we don’t raise them.” “Do not say ‘whelp.’” Mirabella frowns. “You know I hate it when you say ‘whelp.’” “Whelp, that’s not my problem.” Arsinoe crunches through a biscuit, slouched”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“Lots of girls are much prettier than you, Joseph replies in her mind. But none of them are you.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“Embers and rage, waiting to ignite.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“The only thing I’m afraid of . . . the only thing I regret, is that I can’t do this alone. That others have to risk themselves with me.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“I suppose it does not feel the same without her . . . Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns