Quotes About Loyalty

Grounded and kept home from the Collegium for a whole year for making out with Evil Overlord Alex. Also for joining his evil army of evil.

La lealtad y el amor no se pueden exigir.

Many nights I drifted off to sleep to his rumbling voice reading from a book of battle strategy. And despite myself, despite what he'd done and what he was, I came to love him. I do love him. It's just not a comfortable kind of love.

Heir to Elfhame," I say. "Get on your knees.

I tried to kill you,' she reminds me. 'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.

Please,' I say to the dirt floor of the brugh, to the earth itself. 'I will do whatever you want. I will give up the crown. I will make any bargain. Just please fix him. Help me break the curse.' I concentrate and concentrate, but the magic doesn't come.

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She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

Neither loyalty nor love should be compelled.

She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. "The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.

He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. "In case you were concerned. All just as you left it." She nodded. "Thanks. Although I guess whether I'll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now." "You should have let me eat her in that parking lot," Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn't just trying to take Cardan's throne. He's trying to take mine.

He and Jericho and Sarah were my best friends

Across the room, Cardan raises a goblet. 'Be welcome in the Isle of Insmire,' he says. 'Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.' His gaze goes to me. 'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.

I think of Cardan's words in the brugh, before he destroyed the crown: neither loyalty nor love should be compelled. He was right. Of course he was right.

Pride is for knights, I remind myself, not for spies.

Relying only on yourself is a good way to get got. Next time, take a member of the royal guard. Take one of us. Take a cloud of sprites or a drunken spriggan. Just take someone.' 'Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it,' I remind him.

You want to know what I did to make him raise me up?' I ask, leaning toward her, close enough that she can feel the warmth of my breath. 'I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.' 'Liar,' she hisses. 'If you're such good friends,' I say, repeating her own words back to her with malicious satisfaction, 'why don't you ask him?

Now the Court's heart is yours and yours alone. Let's break it.

What did he offer you?' I ask, like we're all in on the same joke. Yes, it's a gamble. Maybe Cardan didn't offer them anything at all. I try not to seem like I'm holding my breathe. I try not to show how small Cardan makes me feel. The Ghost gives me one of his rare smiles. 'Mostly gold, but also power. Position.' 'A lot of things he hasn't got,' said the Bomb. 'I thought we were friends,' Cardan says halfheartedly.

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try.

So long as I live, you will obey this.

I think they suspected my chief qualification for the position was my ability to lie for him.

No," Vivi told him in her somber little voice. "I'm never going anywhere with you." "I'm your father," he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. "You are my heir and my blood, and you will obey me in this as in all things.