A River of Royal Blood Quotes

“freedom that could cost your life was just enslavement under a different name.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“They didn’t know that to me all that cruelty wasn’t shocking. The same depravity had created the Rival Heir system and allowed both to persist. “Would it change anything if everyone understood?”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“Even when you loved them, people were unknowable.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“I'd just started controlling how much I felt other people's emotions, but it was so much harder around people who were in pain. We can't just soothe them for the sake of our own comfort. We only do what they want.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“Humans thrived here not because of our accomplishments, but because of what we’d stolen from the khimaer. We’d shown through the Enclosures that khimaer lived and died according to what humans decreed.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“Guilt and fear turned so easily to hatred. If I became Queen, which was doubtful at this point, I hoped to change much of that. My”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“Yes, and political influence can shift like the changing tide, Your Highness. It is important to remember that power can't be swayed. Power simply is.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“Anali always said she had had a rough time when she first enlisted, but I never knew about these attacks. They were the worst kind of vile, but the sort of foulness Myre was built upon. Humans thrived here not because of our accomplishments, but because of what we’d stolen from the khimaer. We’d shown through the Enclosures that khimaer lived and died according to what humans decreed. Of course these men had decided they had a right to Anali’s life.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood