Цитаты из книги The Queen of Nothing

Through the trees we ride, and I cannot help thinking that when I pictured knighthood, I pictured something like this. Facing down magical monsters, clad in armor, sword at my side. But like so many imaginings, it was absent all the horror.

The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away. For many long days, I have been terrified, and now, when I ought to be feeling great, what I want to do is hide under a table in the brugh with Cardan until I can finally convince myself he's all right.

"Well, even if the seprent bites off your head," says Tatterfell, "the rest of you will still look good."
"That's the spirit," I tell her.

"If fighting breaks out, focus on what's in front of you. Fight your fight." she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs."

- I hate that he loves you.
- He hated it, too.
- No, he didn't.

"It is the nature for the child to achieve what a parent only dream."

And if I am particularly kind that evening, particularly deferential, if I laugh particularly loudly, it is because I know I will never do this again. I will never have him behave like this with me again. But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have - for better or worse - become what I am.

"If you're looking for reasons why he disappointed you, by all accounts, Prince Cardan was a disappointment from the beginning "

"Also no," I say. "No, I won't help you. No, I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical world: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no." - Jude

"- Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts."  - Heather

If he could not get High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad