The Tin Princess Quotes

“She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.”
― Philip Pullman, The Tin Princess

“You're a bloodthirsty character, aren't you?"
"I don't know," she said honestly. "I've never had the chance to find out. I'm pretty sure I would fight if I had to, though. I wouldn't give in, or flinch and cry and faint. People don't think girls are brave, but I'd love the chance to try... just once, perhaps; just once, so I could know what it was like to risk my life and fight to the death. It's not that I want to kill people, it's that I want to find out about me. I'll never completely know about myself unless I try.”
― Philip Pullman, The Tin Princess

“I'm a tin princess. Like chess: I come all the way across the board and turned into a queen, Still only tin, though.”
― Philip Pullman, The Tin Princess

“Adelaide played statecraft with all the guile and passion that she put into her other games, and Becky began to realize that perhaps she had been preparing for this with every throw of the dice, every move of a chess piece.”
― Philip Pullman, The Tin Princess