31 Quotes by Erika Johansen

You win your people or you lose your throne.

Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.

Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later

We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done

You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.

Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement

Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.

Kelsea didn't recognize the guard, but she knew his voice. After a moment she realized, bemused, that it was Dyer. He'd shaved his red beard."Dyer, is that your face under there?"Dyer flushed bright red. Pen snorted gleefully, and Kibb clapped Dyer on the back. "I told him, Lady...now we can see every time he blushes.