Ash Princess Quotes

We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them. Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike

Today is done, the time has come for little birds to fly. Tomorrow is near, the time is here for old crows to die.

Talking about him feels like rubbing at a raw wound, but I don't know how to stop. Some wounds you don't want to heal all the way. Some wounds you want to leave a scar.

We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive.

Still, there is something to be said for someone seeing your darkest parts and accepting you anyway.

I was a princess made of ashes; there is nothing left of me to burn. Now it's time for a queen to rise.

“What you are is a monster,” she tells me, biting out the words with more ferocity than I thought she possessed. Despite myself, I flinch. “I’m a queen,” I correct

I believe that if the gods could interfere they would, but maybe that’s beyond their reach. Maybe, instead, they can give us what we need to succeed on our own.

All humans make mistakes, and your mother was no exception. She loved you dearly and she loved Astrea, and I believe she thought she was doing the right thing. She was human, no more and no less.

Her dark eyes flash up to meet mine and there is a kind of understanding there I never expected from her. I realize suddenly that I don’t know her at all, or Heron, or even Blaise anymore. They all must have stories like this, stories I haven’t heard, about horrors I can never really understand. “We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”

I stand, alone. If I am to survive, I must be strong enough to live up to it.

I should not be calm, but I am. There is one path ahead of me now, and I can see it clearly it. It is an awful path, one I hate. I will never forgive myself for walking down it. I will not come out the other side of this the same But it is the only path I can take.

I spent much of my first six years afraid of my mother’s throne the way most children are afraid of monsters lurking under their beds.

It only makes the voice in my head grow louder. And when the voice grows loud enough to push past my lips, the Kaiser grows angry

My thoughts are growing bolder now, and though I know they are dangerous, I can no longer quiet them. And for the first time, I don’t want to

My mother was known as the Fire Queen, regal and strong. But I am the Ash Princess, a living joke.

...no matter who we have been, no matter who we will be, there is a part of his soul that understands mine in its entirety.