Top 400 C.S. Pacat Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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3. “A kingdom, or this.”

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

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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”

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12. “Laurent said, ‘Hello, lover.”

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

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

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

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “Laurent, falling through scattered thoughts into sleep, said, ‘Yes, uncle.”

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “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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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. “Laurent was a nest of scorpions in the body of one person.”

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26. “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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27. “He knew that expression. His sense of danger, highly attuned to Laurent’s moods, told him that Aimeric was better off downstairs with a half dozen men than he was up here with Laurent. Laurent’s lids were smooth over a cool gaze, his posture straight-backed, his fingers poised on the rim of the goblet. I.”

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

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

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31. “It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky. Damen remembered how it felt to be coerced to Laurent’s will. Laurent had never needed to use force to make men obey him, just as he had never needed men to like him in order to get his way. Laurent got his way because when men tried to resist him, they found, sweetly outmanoeuvred, that they couldn’t.”

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32. “To face his own powerlessness was awful.”

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33. “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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34. “There were some notable absences. Orlant. Aimeric. Jord. The.”

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35. “Laurent, he thought, and lifted his gaze to meet the eyes of the man who had witnessed the last words of Lord Touars. It wasn’t Laurent. It was Jord. He was staring at Damen in horror, his sword lax in his hand. ‘No,’ said Damen. ‘It’s not – ’ The final moments of the battle faded around Damen, as he came to full comprehension of what Jord was seeing. Of what Jord, for the second time that day, was seeing. ‘Does he know?’ said Jord. He.”

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36. “He said: ‘What makes you think Kastor is the weaker man? You don’t know him.’ ‘But I’m coming to know you,’ said Laurent.”

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37. “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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38. “Once or twice he heard the low, musical sound of voices. Once, a laugh, soft and lover-like.”

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39. “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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40. “It’s me,’ said Damen. ‘It’s me, here with you. Say my name.’ ‘Damianos.’ He.”

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41. “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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42. “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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43. “I would have,’ said Damen, ‘if I’d had the chance to court you properly. If I’d come in state to your father. If there had been a chance for our countries to be – ’ Friends. He felt the mood shift, thinking of the past. Laurent didn’t seem to notice it. ‘Thank you, I know exactly how it would have been. You and Auguste would have been slapping each other on the back and watching tournaments, and I would have been trailing around tugging on your sleeve, trying to get a look in edgewise.’ Damen.”

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44. “I see you’ve thought of everything,’ said Damen, bitterly. ‘It didn’t have to be – you could have come to me, and asked for my help, I would have – ’ ‘Killed the rest of my family?’ Laurent.”

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45. “Damen thought privately that princes needed seasoning not protection. Laurent in particular. He had seen Laurent open his mouth and strip paint from the walls. He had seen Laurent lift a knife and in cold blood slit open a man’s throat without so much as a flicker of his golden lashes. Laurent didn’t need to be protected from anything.”

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46. “He won’t hurt the child,’ said Laurent. ‘Whether it is your son or Kastor’s, it is leverage. It is leverage against you, against your armies, and against your men.’ ‘You mean that it hurts me more that my son is alive and whole than it would if he were maimed or dead.’ ‘Yes,’ said Laurent. He.”

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47. “He touched the starburst pattern at his shoulder. He was dressed in Laurent’s colours, and bearing his insignia. That was a strange feeling.”

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48. “It was what Laurent had been holding in his right hand when Damen entered. The blue sapphires of Nicaise’s earring. The.”

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49. “Nikandros – ’ He was staring at Nikandros in confusion, with his clothing hanging from his waist, and Nikandros was staring back at him. Nikandros said, ‘Your back.’ Damen.”

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50. “No,’ said Jokaste. ‘ – Exalted. You are merciful. I have a son of my own. Spare my life, Exalted – ’ ‘No,’ said Jokaste. ‘He will not kill a roomful of women for loyalty to their mistress, Kyrina.’ ‘ – spare my life, I swear, I will tell you all I know – ’ ‘No,’ said Jokaste. ‘Tell.”

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