Quotes of: Queen Keyword

Charlie Allnut: [his stomach is growling] Ain't a thing I can do about it.

The African Queen

Nina: [on the phone] He picked me, mommy! I'm the new swan queen!

Black Swan

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Usain Bolt

How about a little teaser from CROWN OF ICE? Thyra Winther, the current Snow Queen speaks about her "home": At night the palace’s crystal halls are tinged sapphire. One of the first bits of magic that Voss taught me was to set the carved walls alig...

Crown of Ice

Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact date is not recorded--she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infan...

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all...

The Elf Queen of Shannara

I had done something wrong. I shouldn't have shown him. But he had known, hadn't he? What had I done? I retreated quickly down the aisle, pushing my way through the double doors into the porch, where I swiped one of my eyes dry. For a long moment I s...

Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight fam...

Edmund White

Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?

Celestial Kings and Queens

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Death Under the Venice Moon

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.

Dairy Queen

Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are.

Eena, The Return of a Queen

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Fathoms of Forgiveness

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

The Faerie Queene

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

The Ghosts of the Past

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Beauty Queens

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

Beauty Queens

...There's an -or- in -whore- because you always have a choice to respect your body and say no.

Beauty Queens

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

Bed of Roses