Princess-and-the-pea Quote by Shannon Hale

“A true plague of a girl. And yet a queen in every sense of the word.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.”

— Lise Arin

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— Kent David Kelly

“There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with…

— Julie Kagawa

“Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her…

— Sarah Micklem

“In living so closely with these queens, inevitably my ideas and prejudices have changed. I became more aware of the profound loneliness of their…

— Jane Dunn

“The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did the women…

— Nicola Clark

“Now Mrs. Greensleeve, who knew that she was going to die, thought of death in the same way a nightbound wanderer in the rain…

— Gerald Kersh

“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen,”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“The queen is kind. The queen is generous. The queen works as hard, if not harder, than everyone else. The queen doesn’t sit on…

— Gabrielle Reece