Rhiannon Thomas > Quotes

“Burn them all, little dragon.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“Few female characters get to be “the Chosen One” in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ultimately save the day. We don’t get impossibly clever female sleuths or the sexy spies with the awesome gadgets. And on the rare occasions that we do get those characters, they’re denigrated as unrealistic Mary Sues.”
― Rhiannon Thomas

“She had spent years locked in a tower, unable to see anything of the world but the scarp of forest beyond her window, but stories had provided her escape. New books, old books, dramas and histories and fantastical adventures, stories of ordinary lives, stories of dragons and demons, murders and mysteries and myths from long ago. A hundred possible worlds, more true to her than her own, more compelling than a life of staring at the same walls and same trees, waiting for the day when the lock would click and she would finally be allowed to be free. A story could not hurt her.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“You have to weed the garden before you can plant flowers, must you not?” I”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“What did he mean? Was he saying he liked me as in “We’re friends, of course I wouldn’t betray you”? Or as in “You’re not an awful person, and I’m happy for you to be queen”? Or . . . or did he mean he liked me, as in he liked me? As in had feelings for me? I”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“What was wrong with you?"
"Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not like the court, but because... well, I do not know why. It is just one of those things... This time was particularly bad, though. It was so strong it was like a physical illness. But the doctors said it was melancholy, just melancholy, and that time away would it. 'A fragile disposition,' they called me.... As though one needs to be fragile to be sad.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“A heavy wooden door waited at the end of the staircase, blocking all sound from beyond. Aurora stared at it. She had not walked through it in years, not since her father decided that even the rest of the castle was unsafe for her. It was longer than years now. Lifetimes. The door had marked the way out, the way to freedom, for her whole quiet little life. What was it now?”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“Rulership does not sit comfortably on any worthy head.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“There were choices, and then there were choices. People could say “everything is a choice” with as much haughtiness and superiority as they liked, but that didn’t mean desperate people wouldn’t take a third option if they could.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“I am nothing, she thought. Nothing but myself.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“But I would prefer to think everyone has something worthwhile in them, if only you take the chance to look.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.”
― Rhiannon Thomas

“Anything was possible, if you thought about it in the right way.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

“The truth is what you make it, Finnegan had written. So why not make it something good?”
― rhiannon thomas , Kingdom of Ashes

“No one is just anything. Everyone will have more layers than you expect.”

“More layers does not mean being a spy.”
― rhiannon thomas , Kingdom of Ashes

“It’s fire,” she said. “Fire isn’t afraid.”
― rhiannon thomas , Kingdom of Ashes

“Why did you do it?” he said.

She frowned, “Do what?”

“Prick your finger. If you knew the spinning wheel was cursed, why did you use it?”

She had never wondering that, not once. Fate decreed, and she had acted, like so much else in her life. “I didn’t have a choice,” she said. “Celestine enchanted me.”

“There’s always a choice, Princess.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“ “Do you want to be queen?”

“No,” Aurora said. “I want to be free.”

“None of us is free.”

“And so I am queen.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Kingdom of Ashes

“Finnegan led her into a sitting room, with green armchairs and a book abandoned spine-up on the coffee table. The Rushes, the title said.

“You can borrow it if you like,” Finnegan said, when he saw her looking. “But it’s not very good. A bit too pretentious for my tastes.”

“Too pretentious for you?” she said. “Must be unbearable.” ”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Kingdom of Ashes

“Someone left this rose in my room.”

“A rose?”

“Yes. Someone left it on my pillow, while I was sleeping. There was a note wrapped around the stem. It just said soon.”

Finnegan’s fingers tightened around her shoulder. “King John would never be so subtle. Ominous flora isn’t exactly his style.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, Kingdom of Ashes