The Winter Prince Quotes

“I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“Have you ever loved anything?"

"Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“There is no end,” I said. “Only the beginning of something else.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“What makes you shiver so?"

He stared at me with hatred and derision. He sat with his knees drawn up close to his chest, his gloved hands in tight fists beneath his chin. "Come," I said, and held out an arm so that he might sit against my shoulder.

He muttered, "I don't want your cold."

"I offer you my warmth," I said.

Reluctantly, resentfully, he curled himself into the hollow between my arm and chest.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“Wild thing,” I whispered. “I’d like to cut your hands off, burn you, blind you… I should crush your slender fingers. I could break all the bones in your hand if I closed my own around yours tightly enough. You are as pure and dangerous as an untamed cat; your beauty makes me sick. And oh, God, you have hurt me, you have hurt me…”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“Have you ever loved anything?"

Yes. Yes. All the wrong things. The hunt, and darkness, and winter, and you, Godmother.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“In trust and wisdom you can be as far superior to anyone as you dare make yourself.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

“Punishment and revenge are two different things.”
― Elizabeth E. Wein, The Winter Prince