Top 400 C.S. Pacat Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Because a king maker would always choose the weaker man. The weaker the man, the easier he is to control.”

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2. “A golden prince was easy to love if you did not have to watch him picking wings off flies.”

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3. “I am not going to reciprocate.’ Damen looked up. ‘What?’ Laurent said, ‘I am not going to do that to you.’ ‘And so?’ ‘Do you want me to suck your cock?’ said Laurent, precisely. ‘Because I don’t plan to. If you are proceeding on the expectation of reciprocity, then you had best be forewarned that – ’ This.”

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4. “I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”

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5. “When the past is forgotten, then it can return. Only those who remember have the chance to stave it off. For the dark is never truly gone; it only waits for the world to forget, so that it may rise again.”

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6. “A kingdom, or this.”

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7. “Kindness is never a mistake,” said the Elder Steward. “Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.”

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8. “You cut his head off. It makes it a little difficult for him to suck your cock.”

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9. “Damen’s palm slid over Laurent’s warm nape; slowly, very slowly, making his height an offering, not a threat, Damen leaned in and kissed Laurent on the mouth. The kiss was barely a suggestion of itself, with no yielding of the rigidity in Laurent, but the first kiss became a second, after a fraction of parting in which Damen felt the flicker of Laurent’s shallow breathing against his own lips. It.”

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10. “What?’ Damen was smiling. ‘You’re very,’ said Laurent, and then, flushing, ‘attractive.’ ‘Really,’ said Damen, in a rich, warm voice. ‘Yes,’ said Laurent. Damen’s smile widened, and he lay back in the sheets and just luxuriated in the idea, feeling ridiculously pleased. ‘Well,’ Damen owned, turning his head back to Laurent eventually, ‘You are too.’ Laurent.”

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11. “It was like being alone in a pit with a snake: the snake could relax, you could not.”

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12. “How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?’ ‘Because he was false,’ said Damen, ‘and you are true. I have never known a truer man.’ He said, into the stillness, ‘I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”

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13. “The light will shine for you in the Hall,” said the Elder Steward. “The janissaries will tend to the fire, the Final Flame that has never gone out. For there will always be a light in the darkness, while a Steward lives to defend it.”

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14. “The bright star holds, even as the darkness rises.”

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15. “The men think you bend me over inside the tent,’ said Laurent. He said it in the same calm way he said everything. Damen fumbled the vambrace. ‘It would erode my authority. My carefully cultivated authority. Now I have really surprised you. Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.’ ‘It’s.”

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16. “My whole life, all anyone’s ever wanted was to possess me,” said James. “The only one who ever set me free was you.”

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17. “You were worried about failing in the eyes of someone else. When you fence don’t think about the outcome of the match. Don’t think about winning. Winning is a distraction. Think about fencing. Think about fencing well, in the way that you enjoy. The technique that you’re practicing will be there, and it will improve over time.”

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18. “Fight him I will, but not at the time and place of his choosing.’ ‘And is that your final answer?’ ‘It is.’ ‘In.”

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19. “I miss you,” said Laurent. “I miss our conversations.”

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20. “I hated you,“ said Laurent. “I hated you so badly I thought I’d choke on it. If my uncle hadn’t stopped me, I would have killed you. And then you saved my life, and every time I needed you, you were there, and I hated you for that, too.”

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21. “I speak your language better than you speak mine, sweetheart.”

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22. “I’ll take care of your son,’ said Laurent. ‘I’ll protect his kingdom as if it were my own. I’ll give my life for his people.’ Above.”

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23. “No fight’s ever fair. Someone’s always stronger.”

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24. “Is that an answer?’ said Damen. ‘I’m not a virgin,’ said Laurent. ‘I wondered,’ Damen said, carefully, ‘if you reserved your love for women.’ ‘No, I – ’ Laurent sounded surprised. Then he seemed to realise that his surprise gave something fundamental away, and he looked away with a muttered breath;.”

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25. “To gain everything and lose everything in the space of a moment. That is the fate of all princes destined for the throne.”

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26. “Having made the decision to let Damen in, Laurent had not gone back on it. When the walls went up, it was with Damen inside them. But.”

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27. “Laurent said, ‘Hello, lover.”

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28. “I know who you are, Damianos,’ said Laurent.”

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29. “Laurent, falling through scattered thoughts into sleep, said, ‘Yes, uncle.”

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30. “Lazar stepped forward and said, ‘Captain. It was an honour to serve with you.’ It was an honour to serve with you. Those words echoed in his mind. ‘No,’ he said. ‘The honour was mine.’ And.”

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31. “I’m not your slave,’ said Damen. ‘I’m a man.’ Don’t.”

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32. “I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve. There’d be no lies between us. We’d have time to be together.”

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33. “You just surprised me,’ said Damen. ‘Sometimes I think I understand you, and at other times I can’t make you out at all.’ ‘Believe me, that sentiment is mutual.’ ‘You said two reasons,’ said Damen. ‘What was the other?’ ‘The.”

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34. “You should be,’ said Jokaste. ‘He is the son of a king.’ The son of a king. Damen felt dizzy, as if the floor was scrolling out from under his feet. She delivered the words calmly, as she had delivered every remark, except that these words changed everything. The idea that it might be – that it was – His child. Everything.”

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35. “You claim this is a matter of national pride, but you are unwilling to lift a finger to serve your own country. The truth is that you acted out of petty malice, and now you’re smarting at discipline. This is on your own head.”

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36. “Don’t,’ said Laurent, ‘toy with me. I – have not the means to – defend against this.’ ‘I don’t toy with you.’ ‘I – ’ ‘Don’t think,’ said Damen. ‘Kiss me,’ said Laurent.”

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37. “Damen turned his eyes to Laurent. A picture of cool, difficult distance confronted him. Laurent sat in brief conversation, wrist balanced on the edge of the great table, fingertips resting on the base of a goblet. From the severe, straight-backed posture to the impersonal grace of his cupped yellow head; from his detached blue eyes to the arrogance of his cheekbones, Laurent was complicated and contradictory, and Damen could look nowhere else. As.”

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38. “I’m going to leave,’ he said. ‘I was always going to leave. I stayed only because – ’ ‘That’s right, you’ll leave. I won’t allow you to wreck us. You’ll command us to Ravenel, you’ll say nothing to him, and when the fort is won, you’ll get on a horse and go. He’ll mourn your loss, and never know.’ It.”

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39. “Is there no way forward for us?’ said Damen. It just came out. Beside him, he could feel Laurent holding himself very still. ‘You mean, will I come back to your bed for the little time we have left?’ ‘I.”

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40. “It can wait. You just won me a fort,’ said Laurent. ‘Let me spoil you a little.’ They.”

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41. “Nikandros turned him, put his hands on Damen’s body, spreading them over Damen’s back, as if touch would confirm what his eyes wouldn’t believe. ‘Who did this to you?’ ‘I did,’ Laurent said. Damen turned. Laurent.”

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42. “Damen said, ‘I will help you in whatever way I can, but there will be no time for anything but hard work, and you will have to do everything right.’ Laurent lifted his chin and replied with every bit of cool, galling arrogance he had ever shown. ‘Watch me,’ he said.”

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43. “It felt, in all the lies between them, as if this was the only true thing. It didn’t matter that he was leaving tomorrow. He felt remade with the desire to give Laurent this: to give him all he would allow, and to ask for nothing, this careful threshold something to be savoured because it was all Laurent would let himself have.”

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44. “Did you think,’ said Laurent, ‘I wouldn’t recognise the man who killed my brother?’ Each.”

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45. “Look, it’s those flowers from that boring poem that you like,’ Ancel announced proudly. He stood in front of the spray of white flowers.”

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46. “He came forward naked, as was the custom in Akielos. He was a handsome youth with the physique of a champion. Elon, his opponent, was a young man from the south. The two men scooped oil from the receptacle brought to them by the stewards, anointed their bodies with it, then they slung their arms around one another’s shoulders, and, on the signal, heaved. The.”

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47. “Laurent,’ he said, and he was breaking apart. To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up. Never had he wanted something this badly, and held it in his hands knowing that tomorrow it would be gone, traded for the high cliffs of Ios, and the uncertain future across the border, the chance to stand before his brother, to ask him for all the answers that no longer seemed so important. A kingdom, or this. Deeper.”

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48. “I fight in your service, Your Highness.” He searched his memory for Radel’s words, and found them. “I exist only to please my Prince. May my victory reflect on your glory.”

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49. “A ludicrous boyish hope flared that someone would come to help him, and, carefully, he extinguished it. Since the age of thirteen, there had been no rescuer, for his brother was dead.”

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50. “You weren’t making love to a slave, you were making love to me.’ And he couldn’t think that through clearly but he could catch a glimmer of it, a glimmer of the edge of it. ‘I thought you wouldn’t, I thought you’d never – ’ He took a step forward.”

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