Alethea Kontis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Country #Cousin #Kings
All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Scar #Born Again #Heal
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.
-- Alethea Kontis

#People #Together #Tears
Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories
-- Alethea Kontis

#Stories #Were Meant To Be #Be Good
He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be
-- Alethea Kontis

#Men #Hands
If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it
-- Alethea Kontis

#Believe #Sunday #Want
I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Pain #Years #Joy
Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Creativity #Essence #World
I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Thinking #Idiot #Rage
Normal is all relative.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Normal #Relative
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Taken #Fighting #Men
Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Taken #Nothing To Lose #Lost
Kindredâ€™s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinelyâ€”and demonicallyâ€”inspired.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Heaven #Legends #Royal
She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete
-- Alethea Kontis

#Laughing #Needed #Feels
For some heroes, nothing is impossible
-- Alethea Kontis

#Hero #Impossible #Nothing Is Impossible
If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?
-- Alethea Kontis

#Interesting #Fantasy #Interesting Life
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
-- Alethea Kontis

#Sunshine #Voice #Hair
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Firsts #Flukes #Coincidence
No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Broken Heart #Grieving #Men
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Wise #Blessed #Angel
Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Sometimes #Hmm #Wisest
It can't be 'true' love without the truth
-- Alethea Kontis

#Being True
May we all be doomed to a happy life.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Happy Life #May
Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.
-- Alethea Kontis

#World #Littles #Too Much
Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Dream #Sleep #Rocks
The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Interesting #Good Times #Bad Times
Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Dwelling #People #Stories
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?
-- Alethea Kontis

#Looks #Stories #Answers

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