Top 120 Kendare Blake Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Fate was the only lesson a god needed to learn. It was their only hard limit.”

— Kendare Blake

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

— Kendare Blake

103. “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.”

— Kendare Blake

104. “But everyone knows that the Breccia Domain is more than an empty hole in the earth. Who knows what happened to the queens who were thrown down into the dark? Into the heart of the island, where the Goddess’s eye is always open. Who knows how she kept those queens or what she turned them into.”

— Kendare Blake

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

— Kendare Blake

106. “I can’t believe that she’s questioning the existence of magic when she’s standing before me dead and talking.”

— Kendare Blake

107. “It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me. Or maybe I’m in color now and they’re in black and white.”

— Kendare Blake

108. “I watch him with amusement. There’s a blue light special on territorial jocks in aisle four.”

— Kendare Blake

109. “I do not want normal. I want greatness.”

— Kendare Blake

110. “I don’t know why, but for a second, my brain was sure that it would be Anna, that she’d be pounding the door down off its hinges with blackveined fists, ready to catch me with my pants down. But we were just doing dishes. My pants are firmly affixed.”

— Kendare Blake

111. “Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count.”

— Kendare Blake

112. “He seems to be a bird of few words.”

— Kendare Blake

113. “Thomas grins, grabs her hand, and kisses it. Since they just got back together, I’m willing to let this PDA business slide.”

— Kendare Blake

114. “It was only a joke, Mia,” says Bree gently. “Of course I do not wish that. No one really wishes to be queen.”

— Kendare Blake

115. “Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.”

— Kendare Blake

116. “This is my favorite part of the hunting. Getting to know them. Hearing their legends. I want them to be as large in my mind as they can possibly be, and when I see them I don’t want to be disappointed.”

— Kendare Blake

117. “Every gift is light and dark.”

— Kendare Blake

118. “Perhaps that is how all men love. More with their eyes than with their hearts.”

— Kendare Blake

119. “I’m dead. I can’t be all right any more than I can be not all right.”

— Kendare Blake

120. “I always thought that about Marie. That the trauma had aged her. Took the life out and left something else behind.”

— Kendare Blake

121. “I mean, face it, mate, aside from your questionable decision to reenter high school, you’re no different than any of them.”

— Kendare Blake

122. “Death is my world. Everything else, school and friends, they’re just things that get in the way of my next ghost.”

— Kendare Blake

123. “As she watches, a woman with dark red hair throws her head back. For a moment her molars- as well as her throat, as if her jaw has come unhinged- are visible. In Katharine’s ears polite chatter turns to wails, and the ballroom is filled with glittering monsters.”

— Kendare Blake

124. “Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.”

— Kendare Blake

125. “Jules was born a pretty child, with one blue eye and one green, with tan skin and thick, dark curls.”

— Kendare Blake

126. “But she’d always watched. She had always made sure he was safe. Will I fail this time? Will I finally have to watch him die, not in his bed an old man but young, and soon, and painfully?”

— Kendare Blake

127. “I have been eating poison since I was a child. Now I am practically made of it.”

— Kendare Blake

128. “He was a god, he said, and always had been. Or at least, that was what they used to be called. What they were now, he didn’t know. It seemed like the wrong word when he was so limited, so much less than he’d been before.”

— Kendare Blake

129. “A queen once crowned,” Luca says, “is crowned forever.”

— Kendare Blake

130. “There is nothing a warrior loves more than to run into a battle headlong with little chance of victory. That is where the glory is, they say. That is where heroes are made. Jules has never heard anything quite so stupid.”

— Kendare Blake

131. “You and I are warriors, Reed. We were made for bloodshed. Made to charge at the sword and see if we can spin away in time.”

— Kendare Blake

132. “It is to be expected, I suppose. Always like a boy, to be in need of protection.”

— Kendare Blake

133. “Because glory is glory... but not all glory is equal.”

— Kendare Blake

134. “A fortress of books,” Mirabella says. She imagines little Katharine stacking volumes to craft a careful, curving tower. And then reading her way out.”

— Kendare Blake

135. “Or perhaps there were more sides to a woman than he had ever understood.”

— Kendare Blake

136. “Even at five years old, she knew that nice and polite were not the same things, though she could not explain exactly why.”

— Kendare Blake

137. “The boring story loses out, truth or not. That’s just how it goes.”

— Kendare Blake