Angela

“It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue