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“And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“Mortals are fragile,' I say.
'Not you,' he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. 'You never break.”
― The Queen of Nothing
'Not you,' he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. 'You never break.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
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