The Fae Queen's Captive Quotes

“what does the world gain by you folding your hungers into the smallest possible square? When your hungers are so very lovely and have led you to dig into the earth for answers to questions most mortals have forgotten to ask?”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“And sometimes I’m afraid that this is how everything is in the world—that any person, hobby, or place is a mirage about to disappear. You think you love something, you think it will love you back, but then the closer you get, the further it draws away from you. The more you realize that, rather than the thing itself, you loved the way it made you feel when you knew nothing about it instead.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“The entire world is inside of me and inside of her, and between our mouths is the truth of living, dying, wanting.

The truth is that I want to swallow it all whole, come what may.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“You might remember I said days and nights move differently than in your world,” she says. “To you, these next two days will feel longer. All the more reason you should sleep now.”

And as much as I need to kiss her again, taste her again, stare wide-eyed at a sky that’s alien in its glittering, bright bustle, I can’t argue with her. With the scent of roses and magic in my nose, I fall fast asleep.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I do think I could sink into the inky well of her gaze and never resurface.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“We came from forever and a daydream away,” the woman says, smiling.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“I’ve learned the hard way that insatiable girls don’t get happily ever afters. They eat their way through lovers and friends too heartily—and that they also want to be eaten alive, their blood drunk and their bones cracked open, is irrelevant.

Insatiable girls stay alone. Insatiable girls settle for living by proxy, for craving and wanting and shoving those wants down where they won’t scare anyone away.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“Why have I been pressing myself into the shape of someone easy, someone composed and guarded and temperate, when I’m none of those things? When I don’t even really want to be? When what I really want is to be as hungry as I can be, as messy as I can be, as much?”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“Some people have princess fantasies—I have fantasies about getting railed in a princess dress. To each their own, I guess.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive

“But that valley is three miles away and impossible to make by foot with the steepness of the hills. Even the sheep have trouble getting over those hills, and sheep are dicks who like nothing more than to find places where they’re certain to die horribly.”
― Sierra Simone, The Fae Queen's Captive