Alethea Kontis Quotes

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

It can’t be ‘true’ love without the truth

Velius–so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold– You’ve m-met her? Velius–oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we’ve all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we’ve been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

May we all be doomed to a happy life.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor–and mine, and yours, and the king’s, and half the country’s, I expect.