31 Quotes by Erika Johansen

We're coming to the point where I may need to split my men to evade pursuit. If so, my choice of bodyguard for you will depend much on your won abilities.""Well, I am a fast reader, and I know how to make stew."Carroll nodded in approval "You've a sense of humor about all this, Lady. You'll need one. You're entering a life of great danger.

What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson."What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight.

The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.

Not just a thief, but a murderer as well. Beneath the handsome man, Kelsea sensed another man, a terrible one, with a life as black as the water in an ice-covered lake. A murderer many, many times.The idea should have brought horror. Kelsea waited for a long moment, bu what came instead was an even worse realization: it didn't matter at all.

Good stitchery," Kelsea told him. "But it will scar anyway, won't it?"The Fetch nodded. "I'm not God, nor am I the queen's surgeon." He gave her a mocking bow. "But it won't fester, and you can tell people that you took the wound in battle.""Battle?""It was a battle getting all that armor off you, and I'll tell the world so."Kelsea smiled, put down the mirror, and turned to him.

History was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.

And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse.

Whatever Row thought was certainly right, and he had never needed to look any deeper than that. It maddened Katie sometimes, but there was also a relief there. Row never needed to gaze backward, wondering whether he had screwed up, whether he had been unfair. The tiny mistakes he made didn't haunt him at night.