The Queen's Resistance Quotes

“If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“Is it only blood that makes a House? Or is it beliefs? What holds people together more? The red in their veins or the fire in their hearts?”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“I love the heart that is within you," Cartier said, smiling as his tears fell. "I love the spirit you are forged from Brienna MacQuinn. If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you were, and I love the woman you have become. Marry me. Lead my lands and my people, and take me as yours.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“I am the evening to your dawn, the thorns to your roses. You and I are bound together as brothers through her. And she lives because of me. I want you to know that before you kill me. She lives because I love her.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“You and I must continue moving forward,” I whispered. “We must continue uprooting darkness and corruption, and replacing it with goodness and light. It will take time. It will take our entire hearts and the breadth of our lives, Isolde. But we do not wish we were dead. We do not wish that we were different individuals, despite what the saints or the gods have ordained for us.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“We had both come from treacherous blood. And if we looked closer into our hearts…we would all find darkness within us.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“ You are a daughter of Maevana. You are made of ancient songs and stars and steel.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“I thought of the days before us, days we would carve with our hands and our minds and our words, days that would no doubt be uncertain and difficult and yet beautiful in the same breath.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“By the gods,” he said, shaking his head at me. “I never thought I would be so happy to see that scheming gleam in your eyes.”
I grinned and playfully laid my hand over my heart. “Ah, Father. You wound me. Why wouldn’t you be happy to hear of my plans?”
“Because they give me gray hairs, Brienna,”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“Sometimes you have to be thrown into things, or else you’ll never do them.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“Our thoughts aligned, like the moon eclipsing the sun, casting a long shadow between us.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“My body demanded that I lie down and try to sleep, but more than that, I wanted to escape reality for just an hour of a blissful dream.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“I love the heart that is within you," Cartier said, smiling as his tears fell. "I love the spirit you are forged from Brienna MacQuinn. If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become. Marry me. Lead my lands and my people, and take me as yours.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance

“And I thought, this is a girl who will do something with her life and I want to be the one who helps her reach her dreams. The day I left you, I wanted to tell you who I was, to bring you home with me. And yet I was not the one to bring you. You brought me home. I love the heart that is within you. I love the spirit you are forged from. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen's Resistance