The Cerulean Queen Quotes

“Don’t think I’m not trying. I’m trying, every day.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Sister,” said Marcot, “would you like me to murder him now or wait until later?”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Hey, sorry, am I late? I got a note that a man—not just anybody mind you but the hero of three continents—was going to be drawn and quartered here tonight, and I’m eager to watch the show.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Families are always complicated, even when you’re raised with your own kin. The fierceness of the love also creates hurts and rivalries, all mixed up.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Most things a person does,” she said to the dark liquid of the goblet, “they do for several complicated reasons. I’m rarely certain that my motives are pure.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“I lost you once. I could not survive losing you again,” he said. “Don’t go away.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“I bring you nothing: no riches, no magic. But I don’t need that; I don’t want that. All I have to offer is my love, but that love has no limits and imposes none on you.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“I cannot wed a man who would have me be less than I am. Not Rotherrod, nor any man who needs me to be less so that he can be more.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Ciellō is right,” she said out loud to the dogs, startling them awake. They looked at her with their ears pricked up. “You are dogs—all right, lovely dogs, my wonderful dogs—but dogs just the same. In many ways it is easier to get along with you than to sort out messy relationships with people.
But since I am condemned to be human, I must try harder.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“ Dear Queen, of course you don’t know me, but could you be the quiet, sore-footed woman who rode with the Raiders in Oromondo? I played the fife and you sang? I fell in love with you but was too much of a coward to admit it? By the way, I saw you die from the Magi’s fireball so how did you get to Cascada and on the throne?”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Which just goes to show,” said Percie, “that we should never be separated. We’re better than blood sisters, because actually I found you, and you found me.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“He found the job satisfying, as if by creating orderliness in one corner of the library he could restore a sense of order in the world at large.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Then think of the work the rebels had to tear it down! They had no Powers.”
“Just the power of hatred and anger,” said Cerf. “Which we’ve learned is pretty fuckin’ strong.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“More than anything he wanted to read, because only in a book could he escape from his own dark thoughts.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“She predicted that when she became queen she would feel transformed—grander, nobler, wiser—but she still felt disappointingly just like herself.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“We’ll talk about this another time. Hold still. Stop breathing. Your chest keeps moving.”
“Kind of hard not to breathe,” muttered Cerúlia. And you were the one who wanted to know everything.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Though I have gone by many names, I herewith claim back my true identity,” she called out in a ringing voice, stretching her arms wide. “I am Cerúlia, the daughter of the late, brave Queen Cressa the Enchanter and the heroic Lord Ambrice.
I. Am. Your. Queen.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Birdie is the Nargis heir! Birdie is the princella. Oh, Waters! I made the princella clean our chicken coop!”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen