Top 120 Kendare Blake Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “But Jules will not give up. Not even if it is the queens’ sixteenth birthday, and Beltane is in four months’ time, falling like a shadow.”

— Kendare Blake

52. “Life’s more interesting with gray areas.”

— Kendare Blake

53. “We are all dual natured, Queen Mirabella. Every gift is light and dark. We naturalists can make things grow, but we also coax lobsters into pots, and our familiars tear rabits to shreds. Elementals burn down forests as easily as they water them with rain. The war gift is for protection as well as slaughter. Even those with the sight are often cursed with madness and paranoia. Even the poisoners are also healers.”

— Kendare Blake

54. “From now on, I will protect you, Kat, whatever happens.”

— Kendare Blake

55. “This is the Legion Queen,” Mathilde says to the frozen crowd. “The strongest naturalist in ten generations. The strongest warrior in two hundred years. She is the one who will fight for all the gifts. She is the one who will change everything.”

— Kendare Blake

56. “I jerk my head toward Thomas and immediately curse myself for trying to be a smartass. My head is not healthy enough for smartassery.”

— Kendare Blake

57. “Will Carmel eventually forget about this adventurous time with us? Will she shun Thomas and go back to being the center of SWC? She wouldn’t do that, would she? I mean, she did just compare me to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My opinion of her isn’t the highest right now.”

— Kendare Blake

58. “I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they’re stuck in the middle of one. Haven’t you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring?”

— Kendare Blake

59. “Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be grinning.”

— Kendare Blake

60. “If you find a way, I’ll be there. Right to the end of the earth and over it.”

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61. “I wish this knife was good for something besides death, that I could cut through time and walk into that house, into that kitchen where he trapped her, and get her out of there. I would make sure she had the future she should have had.”

— Kendare Blake

62. “If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss.”

— Kendare Blake

63. “In his mind, she was a nurture, kind and comforting, a woman who would give up her freedom for the love of a child even when the child was not hers. But the woman he met was hard and decisive. Perhaps the Black Cottage had changed her. Or perhaps there were more sides to a woman than he had ever understood.”

— Kendare Blake

64. “When he realizes that Carmel’s standing behind me, he quickly checks his face for drool and tries to smooth his hair down. Unsuccessfully.”

— Kendare Blake

65. “I hit him with a board; of course he’s got a concussion. Don’t be an idiot.”

— Kendare Blake

66. “They shouldn’t be allowed to teach math so early in the morning.”

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67. “Arsinoe hides everything behind the same easygoing smirk.”

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68. “With her weakening gift, she could be burned, and Arsinoe imagines that for a girl who used to dance with fire, there could be nothing worse.”

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69. “How all women must mourn the loss of those little girls, relegated to shadow as they grow.”

— Kendare Blake

70. “If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.”

— Kendare Blake

71. “I want to get some sleep, so if there’s something mind-numbingly disturbing you want to show me, can we just get it over with?”

— Kendare Blake

72. “The sisters she loved at the Black Cottage are gone. Arsinoe saw her chance and she took it. So next time, Mirabella will take hers aswell.”

— Kendare Blake

73. “I can’t believe I’m being so emo. I’m complaining to a girl who was brutally murdered at sixteen.”

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74. “I’m staring at Anna’s house again. The logical part of my brain tells me that it’s just a house. That it’s what’s inside that makes it horrifying, that makes it dangerous, that it can’t possibly be tilting toward me like it’s hunting me through the overgrowth of weeds. It can’t possibly be trying to jerk free of its foundation and swallow me whole. But that’s what it looks like it’s doing.”

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75. “Anyway, life doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t care about fair or unfair.”

— Kendare Blake

76. “I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don’t know what to say back.”

— Kendare Blake

77. “You know what I hate about flashlights?” Thomas asks, and I watch his beam move around the room, revealing sudden bird faces and shifting wings, then nothing but cobweb-covered boards.”They always make you think about the stuff you’re not seeing. The stuff that’s still in the dark.”

— Kendare Blake

78. “That’s what they call you, on the mainland. Witches. That’s what my father says that you are. Monsters. Beasts. But you are not a monster.” “No,” she says quietly. “And neither are the rest.”

— Kendare Blake

79. “It will not be easy for him to see her dead, should they become close. But she has so few friends. She cannot turn one away.”

— Kendare Blake

80. “Using for a noble purpose is still using.”

— Kendare Blake

81. “It’s a nice story. Something new. The poisoners off the throne. But it’s only a story. A dream, and I’ve dreamed those kinds of dreams before. They don’t work out.”

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82. “Four small flames ignite and illuminate our faces and chests, revealing expressions that are part wonder, part fear, and part feeling stupid.”

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83. “Anna’s eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.”

— Kendare Blake

84. “What is the truth?” Carmel asks. “What happened in that house? Am I really supposed to believe that Mike was murdered by a ghost?”

— Kendare Blake

85. “But just once, I would like to be given the benefit of belief rather than the expectation that I will fail.”

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86. “Mirabella is still upright amid everything, and Arsinoe smiles. She does not know how anyone ever expected that she or Katharine could stand against that.”

— Kendare Blake

87. “Cas does have a weakness for girls who can kick his ass.”

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88. “Except for the severe coloring, Arsinoe does not look much like a queen. Her hair is rough, and they cannot keep her from cutting it. Her black trousers are the same ones she wears everyday, and so is her light black jacket. The only piece of finery they could get her into for the occasion was a new scarf that Madrigal found at Pearson’s, made from the wool of their fancy, flop-eared rabbits.”

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89. “She talks like she thinks I’m a schoolboy with fantasies of heroes who get the girl and ride off into the sunset. What kind of world does she think I grew up in?”

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90. “I should think that is what anyone would wish- to be loved for themselves and not their position.”

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91. “Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.”

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92. “This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.”

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93. “One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can.”

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94. “Everyone else has sort of scattered off to their respective corners. I suppose everyone’s doing some thinking, maybe saying some prayers. Hopefully Thomas and Carmel are making out in a closet.”

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95. “I was ordinary,” she said. “I blended in.” “Impossible. With Aidan? You can’t blend in with something that pretty on your arm.”

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96. “Fate is playing a practical joke.”

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97. “Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.”

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98. “The fools. But just because they are fools does not mean they are not a threat.”

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99. “She clears her throat and does her best to start, laying out the technical specs of last year’s party: who was there; what they were doing; why they came with this or that person. I guess she wants me to have a full and realistic picture. Some people need that, I suppose. Personally, I’m the type who likes to fill in the blanks and make it my own. It’s probably better that way than it really was.”

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100. “The gods of war are about to bleed.”

— Kendare Blake