Quote by Angie Tolpin

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying. I am suited to the shadows, to the art of…

— Holly Black

“No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.”

— Ada Palmer

“Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be…

— Margaret Atwood

“She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.”

— Tanith Lee

“No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in…

— Allyse Near

“This [for opposition leaders to claim royal lineage], in a world ruled by a republic, was what revolution had come to mean.”

— Tom Holland

“The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.”

— Randy Ingermanson

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history…

— John Steinbeck

“The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!”

— Bryant McGill

“He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.”

— Holly Black

“only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.”

— John Steinbeck

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some…

— William Shakespeare