The Queen's Secret Quotes

“I learned a long time ago that tears don't save lives. All they do is blur your vision.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret

“If I could go back to my girlhood and its freedom, I would. But that’s never possible: life pushes us forward, into more complications than we ever imagined as children.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret

“I don’t know. I live day to day, waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret

“Frustration. Cal knows all about that. His whole life has turned into a frustrated quest, and he’s been faced with one thing after another that he can never have or never find or never vanquish.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret

“Her mind’s always spinning, thinking about the next thing, the next danger. It’s a good quality, he guesses, but an exhausting one.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret

“I’ve heard about the palace windows,” Rhema says. “One of the cooks told me that she worked in the kitchens there as a girl. She said that in the great hall of Violla Ruza, some of the windows have actual colored glass. Can you believe it? And there’s a rose on each one, with three circles around them.”
She was talking about the Renovian royal seal. Cal knew it well.
“The three circles symbol eternity.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Queen's Secret