Trial of the Sun Queen Quotes

“With a temper like mine, a girl is bound to get in trouble now and then…
or often.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Her fingers felt small, yet substantial, when he wrapped his own around them. A jolt shot through him at the touch and she stopped, looking at him with a curious expression. Had she felt it, too?”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“That b**** took my soap.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Hunger is a language I know. A script I've written a thousand times.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I'm going to die, all because of a fucking bar of soap.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Nothing actually belongs to anyone here. Everything is on temporary loan, including our bodies and definitely our souls.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“But his kindness is addictive.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“How can this woman have spent half her life in Nostraza and turn out like that? It should have broken her. It should have left her as a shell. But somehow, she survived both that and Atlas’s Trials and came out on the other end in a blazing ball of confident fire that threatens to burn me up every time she walks into the room. It’s as though her spirit has always understood her legacy and her purpose.
She behaves exactly like a queen. A slightly wild one with a short fuse, but a queen nonetheless.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“When he bonded to his queen, he would settle for nothing less than someone who set his blood on fire.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“They smell like a rose garden,”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“That night, he’d let me think I was special, but I remind myself that I am nothing and it will always be that way.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“The kindness in his words, the sympathy in his voice, makes tears flame behind my eyes.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I might not know who the thirty-seventh king of Aphelion was, but at least I know how to throw a fucking punch.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“The setting sun paints the water in hues of pink and orange, and every time I think I’ve witnessed the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, I find yet another to surpass it. I wonder if I’ll ever get over this sensation of seeing everything as if for the very first time. I’ve barely lived. My entire life has been experienced on the edge of nothing.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I want my revenge. I want the magic and the power I was denied.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“He held out a hand, and she placed hers in his. Her fingers felt small, yet substantial, when he wrapped his own around them. A jolt shot through him at the touch and she stopped, looking at him with a curious expression.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I mean, it’s the same situation. When you have nothing, you can’t build anything. When your days are spent wondering where your next meal is coming from or how you’re going to survive the night without having your throat slit, you don’t have the time or the energy or the motivation to make your life better. You’re too busy simply surviving.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“He’s just a male and can’t be held responsible for his actions. It’s up to you to ensure your relationship remains appropriate.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“One day, I’ll get out of here and pay back the Aurora King for everything he’s taken. For everything he’s done.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“He lowers his head and peers at me, meeting my eyes. “No. I can see the life you’ve lived in the depths of your eyes. You are no fool, and you are not ignorant. Perhaps you didn’t learn how to waltz or play the piano, but those are things the rich do merely to fill their time. They aren’t important and they mean nothing. You’ve lived, Lor. You must have experienced so many terrible things in that prison.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Every second. Every minute I’m focused on the day I finally get free. I live it in my dreams and see it when I’m awake. I feel it in the shivering marrow of my bones. One day, I’ll get out of here and pay back the Aurora King for everything he’s taken. For everything he’s done.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Gabriel’s a captain?” “Of the king’s personal guard, yes.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“I’m not supposed to be doing this…but I can’t seem to help myself around you.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“He’s just a male and can’t be held responsible for his actions.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“but clearly there’s a reason he stole her. There’s a reason he wants to ascend her to Imperial Fae and then bond to her.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“maintaining this farce as Atlas and his Mirror condemned some unsuspecting female to his eternal servitude. The only way Aphelion’s king could get anyone to bond with him was to trick her into thinking it was some great honor.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“Ten warders and ten Tributes. It’s how it’s always been done. However, the captain is usually assigned to the favored contender. I admit, I was a bit surprised to see him assigned to you.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“What I don’t understand is how Atlas could possibly have discovered this secret.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“The only way Aphelion’s king could get anyone to bond with him was to trick her into thinking it was some great honor.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen

“It was like being filled with the sun.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Trial of the Sun Queen