The Queen Quotes

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“I’d decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?”

“I beg your pardon, ma’am?”

“In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It’s not laid down, is it? It’s not off-limits?”

“Not that I’m aware, ma’am.”

“Good. Well in that case I’m going to start. Leviticus, here I come. Goodnight.”

The archbishop shook his head and went back to Strictly Come Dancing.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time, I was the powerful witch.”
― Christina L Barr

“Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a person into someone who is, by most accounts, evil.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“Why does it always have to hurt so much?” Kingsley asked.


“What?”


“Life.”


Nora smiled. “God’s a sadist. That’s why.”


“You think so?”


“Oh, I know so,” Nora said. “I’m a writer. I do what God does in miniature every time I write a book. I create worlds and people out of nothing—ex nihilo—and I torture the fuck out of them for four hundred pages.”


“Because you’re a sadist?”


“Partly that. Plus...if I didn’t torture them it would be a real fucking short book. And trust me on this, King, there is no money in short stories.”


Kingsley laughed and buried his head into her lap again, seeking her comfort and safety and the shelter of someone stronger.


“You’ve solved the oldest theological conundrum of all time,” Kingsley said. “Why does God allow suffering? Because there’s no money in short stories.”


“I’ll tell you one more little secret about being a god. Even though I torture them for four hundred pages, it hurts me to do it.”


“They aren’t real. Why does it hurt?”


“I created them. They’re mine. I love them. God loves us, too, even when He hurts us. Especially when He hurts us, I imagine.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Queen

“This was joy. This was love. So many words you hear about or read about and now...now I knew them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II’s name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor’s assets and income were mostly non-declared.”
― James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

“Contrary to the myth that the British Royals were no longer all-powerful, it was common knowledge within Omega and other organizations in the know that they remained one of the most dominant forces on the planet. The Royals were totally comfortable with the mass populace believing they’d passed their heyday. That belief allowed them to control things behind the scenes with effortless ease. And control they did, in every way imaginable.”
― James Morcan, The Orphan Factory

“You think I’m perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.”
― Christina L. Barr, The Queen

“But underneath that, his laugh was childlike.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“She was called Victoria, because she had beaten us in battle, seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana, because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen, because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name. She was huge, huger than I had imagined possible, and she squatted in the shadows staring down at us, without moving.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

“Still, the ghost of a smirk on his face was enough to paralyze me. I was fine with not seeing more.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“It was true. He was everything I ever wanted. It was all the strings attached to him that frightened me.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“It's a strange thing to discover how much you matter to people you didn't really know you mattered to.”
― Kiera Cass, The Queen

“She watched a red double-decker bus swaying along beside them. Everyone inside looked tired and bored. "How can you be bored? You live in London! You're breathing the same air as the Queen and Vivienne Westwood!”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“This whole "blue blood" thing is gross and disgusting. The Royals are the original "supremacists" in believing themselves to be apart and above others.”
― A.E. Samaan

“We could all stand to learn something from the Queen. Kudos to her for saying with her actions that it's okay to alter tradition and accept people where they are.”
― Germany Kent

“Most playwrights should observe the same constitutional rights as the Queen: to be consulted, to advise and to warn.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“Your name is Brighton Jussier. Your friends sometimes call you Bri. Tink calls you Lite Bright,” he said, those beautiful eyes searching mine. “I call you my sunshine. Do you know why? It’s because I saw you smile once, and it was like the sun finally rising after centuries of nothing but night.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Because that’s what friends do for one another, even human and fae friends,” she said, and a hint of a smile pulled at her lips when I rolled my eyes. “More importantly, that’s what warriors do for one another.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Queen

“For an unrelated reason, I was fortunate to be in London to witness a set of extraordinary festivities commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne of England. Although the queen had been traveling the globe for months to Commonwealth nations hosting Golden Jubilee events in her name, the celebrations peaked on June 4, 2002, with a program on the Mall in London that drew over a million well-wishers from around Britain and the world. The marked adulation surprised many in the national press who’d predicted the Jubilee would be a fizzle, demonstrating the modern-day irrelevance of the British monarchy in general and of Her Royal Highness in particular.

The opposite proved to be the case. In the several weeks’ run-up to June 4, throngs within the United Kingdom flocked to dedications, parades, concerts, and special proceedings honoring the queen, which she honored in turn with her presence. Especially coveted were invitations to small parties where it was sometimes possible to be addressed personally by the queen in a receiving line.

Of course, the opportunity to meet Elizabeth II under any circumstances would be considered exceptional; but the chance to meet her amid the pomp and pageantry of the Golden Jubilee added even more significance to such occasions, which were widely reported by the media. One report stood out from all the others for me. A young woman moving through a reception line at one of the small fêtes experienced the horror of hearing the cell phone in her purse begin to ring just as she met the queen. Flustered and frozen with embarrassment as her phone pealed insistently, she stared helplessly into the royal eyes that had become fixed on her bag. Finally, Elizabeth leaned forward and advised, “You should answer that, dear. It might be someone important.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

“Somehow in the whore the cold womb, constantly subjected to desire, produces a phenomenon. All the eroticism comes to the surface. The constant living with a penis inside of one does something fascinating to a woman. The womb seems to be exposed, to be present in every aspect of her.”
― Anaïs Nin, Little Birds

“This woman's hair ... it was the most sensual hair I have ever seen. Medusa must have had hair like this and with it seduced the men who fell under her spell. It was full of life, heavy, and as pungent as if it had been bathed in sperm. To me it always felt as if it had been wrapped around a penis and soaked in secretions. It was the kind of hair I wanted to wrap around my own sex. It was warm and musky, oily, strong. It was the hair of an animal. It bristled when it was touched. Merely to pass my fingers through it could give me an erection. I would have been content just touching her hair.”
― Anaïs Nin

“The others ... how you have to search for the animal in them. They have diluted it, disguised it, perfumed it, so it will smell like something else—like what? angels?”
― Anaïs Nin