Violet Made Of Thorns Quotes
"The best part about being Seer isn’t the tower or the amenities or the access to the king. It’s how easily everyone believes what you say."
"If I can’t see the future directly, I might feel the Fates’ intentions instead: foreboding feels like the wet gust before a storm; opportunity, like a dip into warm honey."
"The time to make an attempt for his favor is now."
"The land will bloom red with blood and roses and war. The prince—his heart will be damnation or salvation. His choice may save us all. His bride—it is up to her! A curse, a curse, accursed curse—gods, be wary—"
"The world unfurled, and so did my ambitions."
"Everyone has heard of the miller’s kind daughter who marries richly, of the maid who coaxes the man out of a beast, of faithful girls in locked towers waiting for their knights."
"I am a better liar than I am a prophet. I don’t believe there’s reason to our destinies. I don’t believe the world is just."
"My chance to escape the streets arrived in a dream."
"If we can have heat in winter, why can’t we have ice in summer?"
"You’re always right, I’m always wrong, now and forever."
"I don’t need to get out of my shell, other people need to cram themselves back into theirs."
"I would take the frog over Cyrus. Unless the frog was you."
"We can’t work together as king and Seer if we’re not honest with each other."
"I don’t hate you. It takes too much effort. But someone should."
"Cyrus really should have chosen a better time to confront me."
"The Seer wanting for certainty! We truly are in end times."
"The first alteration I made to my foretellings was a small one."
"I’ve been pretending—like you have—that the night of the ball never happened."
"You are not merely a receiver of prophecy, but a translator of it."
"I’d still rather think about Cyrus instead of those violent scenes in Raya’s threads."
"You have been and will continue to be key to that."
"Many of my first patrons would ask after her spirit, as if my Sight allowed it. It doesn’t."
"I learned quickly then how silly people get when they’re clouded by hope."
"Leaving the palace grounds through the eastern gates, I take the steep path down the cliffs that overlook the river Julep."
"Everything in the city looks small and manicured from this distance."
"I see how Nadiya came to have so many fairies: they were originally the ones trapped in the witch’s scepter."
"Times may be too desperate to rely on the truth."
"But when have you ever been anything but a problem?"
"Don't get the wrong idea, I’m making sure some prophecy doesn’t kill us all. That’s it."
"There’s a time for softer emotions, but not when the challenge licked upon his grin makes me want him to inconvenience me as much as possible."
"I learn what compromise means: a prince kneeling before me with a mouth free to roam."
"I don’t regret the lies I’ve told, nor following his father’s orders, nor keeping that thorn tucked away for so long before I burned it."
"You hold your stare when you lie. When you’re saying something true that you’re terrified about, you look away. That’s your tell."
"Better to fight a fool than partner with one."
"We are both clever and prideful. Too much for your own good."
"This is a bad idea. It all already happened, which is also the only reason we’re clearheaded now."
"You and I can meet like this once a week, and it should be enough."
"I’ve always known that the queen beside me would be better made of ice than flesh."