The Queen Of The Tearling Quotes

#1. I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

Minnie Driver

#2. Edie enters the Factory in her otherworldly daze. She is at once natural and a creation of pure artifice. Everything about her - her tights, her long legs, her high heels, her preternaturally skinny body, her huge eyes - seems to drift upwards as if the cigarette she is smoking were made of helium.

David Dalton

#3. Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.

Christina Engela

#4. You know the saying about how revenge tastes better cold? Well, it tastes just as good warm.

Anita Diamant

#5. The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

Genrich Altshuller

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

Erika Johansen

#7. Control Power, or be Controlled

Chris Walker

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

Maya Lin

#11. Preach the Gospel with your life.

Matt Chandler

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

Erika Johansen

#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. The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mencius

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

Erika Johansen

#16. We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Mark Doty

#17. As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Bill Nye

#18. When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Mark Lawrence

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

Erika Johansen

#20. It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.

Bill Belichick

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

Erika Johansen

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

Erika Johansen

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

Erika Johansen

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

Erika Johansen

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

Erika Johansen