Kingsbane Quotes

“We are more than what's been done to us. We are more then our anger.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I don’t love you,” she whispered, the lie bitter on her tongue. “I refuse to love you.” “I know,” he said and held her to him, stroking her hair. “I don’t love you either.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“We are the light against the darkness, and we must continue to burn brightly, so others may find their way out.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Like the sun and the moon. Like day and night. I am the shore and you are the sea, my darling. The wild, wild sea - ever-changing and mighty. I need your passion, and you need something steady to come home to. An anchor, warm and sunlit.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“It’s unfair that you should have to bear so much.” “Me? Or women?”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“It is a great responsibility, to be trusted with another’s heart.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“We fight until we can’t find anymore, and then we die, and none of it will matter anyway.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I’ve looked at you so many times that I see you when I close my eyes. I can’t shake you.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Now that I’ve known a life with you by my side, I’m not sure I could bear that kind of loneliness again.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“The mind is fragile, and time is pitiless.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“You are the light of the world, and you will guide us home.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Papa one told me that, when I lay dying - because someday I will, we will we all - I must not think of the things that frighten me, and I must not think of my pain. I must think of everyone and everything I have ever loved, for if I do that, those thoughts will follow me into death, and that far black place will turn bright and golden, as the world long ago used to be.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I am myself. My mind is my own. And I am not afraid.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“She felt, simply, like a girl lucky enough to know what it was to be loved, and she clung to that feeling as fiercely as she could.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“He was the steady voice in her mind that spoke to her when she didn't feel steady at all.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I am a force unconquerable.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“How utterly strange to see pieces of her own face on this stranger. To know that this person she had never seen before had given her life. Trying to wrap her mind around the concept felt like trying to circle her arms around the entire world.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“With every slam of his boots against the floor, his mind chanted one furious word—a curse, a plea, a prayer. Eliana. Eliana. Eliana. ”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I don’t hate you. I could never hate you. I love you like the moon loves the sun. I love you so much I could die from it.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“He sensed her praying, which she wasn’t good at, because she hated God.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Does she still love me? Harkan could no longer speak. His thoughts were a whisper, fading. But he needed to know. He needed, he needed. Oh, Harkan, Zahra replied, soft and sad. She never stopped.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“that. We are more than what’s been done to us. We are more than our anger.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“and her tears of rage would drown the world.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Navi squeezed Eliana’s hands, pressed a kiss to her cheek. “Savrasara, Eliana.” “What does that mean?” “It’s an old Astavari word, one we learned from Saint Tameryn’s writings. Roughly translated, it means, You carry my heart. An expression of love and of warning. It is a great responsibility, to be trusted with another’s heart.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Because we are well-matched,” he said. “Like the sun and the moon. Like day and night. I am the shore and you are the sea, my darling. The wild, wild sea—ever-changing and mighty. I need your passion, and you need something steady to come home to. An anchor, warm and sunlit.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“Their message was plain: she was one mere girl, and this wave was a force unconquerable. No, she told her aching body. I am a force unconquerable.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“The prophecy, this talk of Sun Queen and Blood Queen. Humans aren't all goodness or all badness, and reducing Rielle to this choice- presenting her with two impossible and inhuman extremes- is a terrible cruelty, and it will be our undoing. We must allow her to live a life of her own making.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“From the first moment he had set eyes on Eliana, he had known her in his bones, in the knit of his muscles, in the roar of his blood. As a boy, he had cradled her tiny infant body in his arms and done everything he could to hold on to her even as the world ripped itself apart at their feet. And now, as a man, her closeness changed the air around him, drawing his senses taut as bowstrings and lighting his skin from the inside out, as if he had consumed a brew of stars that wouldn’t stop spinning. But in the war room, the air remained dull and unremarkable, and he knew she wasn’t there even before he scanned the room to confirm it. Ordinarily, he wasn’t one to make a scene, but in that instance, he felt dangerously close to it. “Where is she?” he said very quietly,”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“I am like no one but myself.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane

“And yet, shame climbed hot up her throat, as if she had been caught doing something illicit. This was not a betrayal; there was nothing to betray.”
― Claire Legrand, Kingsbane