Kill the Queen Quotes

“Summer queens are fine and fair, with pretty ribbons and flowers in their hair. Winter queens are cold and hard, with frosted crowns made of icy shards.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“You have to survive, no matter what you have to do, no matter who you have to cheat and hurt and kill, no matter what the cost is to your heart and soul. Do you hear me, Everleigh? You have to live.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“Someone always wanted to kill the queen.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“A woman is dead. I would hardly call that progress."

"Sure it is," she replied. "Especially since you're not the one who's dead."

I couldn't argue with that.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“They're not aspersions if they're true.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“The day of the royal massacre started out like any other.
With me doing something completely, utterly useless.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“You will be a wonderful queen. Kind, caring, compassionate. Strong, cunning, and ruthless when you need to be. But I can’t break my promise to myself. I won’t. Not even for you, highness.” The last word came out as a low whisper, but somehow, it shattered my heart more than if he had been shouting curses at me.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“Traitors always pay for their sins," I hissed.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“The queen was dead.
Again.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“I pulled a blue toboggan down low on my forehead,”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“A cold fist of rage wrapped around my heart, squeezing tight. I wasn’t going to best Sullivan, but I had to try. I couldn’t afford for him or any of the other gladiators to think that I was weak. More importantly, I didn’t want to be weak. I didn’t want to keep my mouth shut and plaster a smile on my face and stay in the background like I had all those years at the palace. I just wanted to be myself, for the first time in a long time.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“Nox trailed along behind Vasilia, hovering at her elbow and engaging in her conversations, as though he was her consort instead of just the guard that she was currently fucking.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“Maeven was still watching me, her fingers curled around a champagne bottle.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“I was a mutt with only an enhanced sense of smell and no other magic. Of course, that wasn’t true, not at all, but my parents’ murders had taught me to keep my other power to myself, lest someone try to use it—and me—for their own ill ends.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“he was the only one who even suspected that I was immune to magic.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen

“I know that shards are one of your signature designs, but why a crown made of them?” I asked, running my finger over the jewels. “I’ve never seen you make that before.” Alvis shrugged. “I’ve made a crown of shards before, although not for a long time. I only use it for special pieces.”
― Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen