Queen Of The Tearling Quotes

#1. You win your people or you lose your throne.

Erika Johansen

#2. Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement

Erika Johansen

#3. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.

Erika Johansen

#4. Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later

Erika Johansen

#5. The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.

Erika Johansen

#7. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

Fritz Leiber

#8. Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It's sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it's really not that sad.

Harris Wittels

#9. I have a hyper personality.

Zoe Saldana

#10. Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.

Erika Johansen

#11. The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.

Erika Johansen

#12. In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.

Peter Diamandis

#13. What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight.

Erika Johansen

#14. We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done

Erika Johansen

#15. Dressmaking is the architecture of movement

Pierre Balmain

#16. Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Wagner

#17. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

Erika Johansen

#18. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.

Erika Johansen

#19. The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.

Erika Johansen

#20. Tends to put us before the television and its one-way window

David Foster Wallace

#21. If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

John Bartholomew Gough

#22. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

Carol Tavris