A.J. Lancaster > Quotes

“How dare her father be dead when she was still so very angry at him?”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel

“We're not enemies, Prince Melodramatic. We're just... I don't know, antagonistic acquaintances."
"Now, why does that feel like a demotion?”
― A.J. Lancaster, A Rake of His Own

“Ride the winds that are, not those you wish for.”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Prince of Secrets

“If one distilled all the qualities that Marius found most aggravating into a single man, that man would be His Highness Rakken Tempestren, prince of the fae Court of Ten Thousand Spires.”
― A.J. Lancaster, A Rake of His Own

“She wasn’t a young, headstrong, storybook princess. She was a self-conscious spinster who’d already let decades of her life slip away with barely a protest, waiting for her life to start.”
― A.J. Lancaster, How to Find a Nameless Fae

“She was dependent on her family for neither shelter nor occupation nor affection now; she’d built those things for herself, and her family had no ability to threaten her by withholding them.”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel

“Sometimes the heart takes a while to catch up to what the mind knows.”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Prince of Secrets

“I cannot lie, Marius Valstar."
"Yes, but you can be massively and unjustifiably over-confident.”
― A.J. Lancaster, A Rake of His Own

“Hetta had quite enjoyed the loose morals of the Meridon theatre scene, but she had no intention of bringing that up in front of her brothers.”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel

“Is there anything I can do to help?” he asked, though he was about as far from a trained diplomat as could be. His specialty lay in making things more awkward between any two groups of people.”
― A.J. Lancaster, A Rake of His Own

“Of course, there was one other way she could attract attention. She pulled off her left glove and stared thoughtfully at her palm. Concentrating, she called up an image she’d used in the play yesterday: glittering purple snake-demons writhing in smoke. She’d meant to summon an illusion only a few inches high, more as an idle thought than any serious attempt at a signal, but the snake-demons that emerged were as tall as she was.”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Stariel

“But I understand mourning what-ifs, even as I know I should not be consumed by them.”
― A.J. Lancaster, How to Find a Nameless Fae

“new-fangled ideas were all very well in theory, but did they work in practice or was it just ignorant toffs with fancy words and no idea how things really worked?”
― A.J. Lancaster, The Court of Mortals