Princess Academy Quotes

Miri exhaled. He was on their side, and he would not let the lowlanders take her away from home. (2.26)

"This past summer, the priests of the creator god took council on the birthday of the prince. They read the omens and divined the home of his future bride. All the signs indicated Mount Eskel." (1.90)

The sound made Miri's heart feel squeezed between two stones. It was a unifying song and one that she was not invited to join. (1.11)

Miri felt torn in half, like an old shirt made into rags. How could she bear to leave her family and walk into some lowlander unknown? (3.43)

Miri swallowed and tried to look modest, but it was too late. Katar was usually the best in the class, and surely she thought Miri's smile meant that she was gloating. (5.22)

"Lords and ladies of…" he stopped and laughed, sharing some private joke with himself. "People of Mount Eskel. As your territory has no delegate at court to report to you, His Majesty the king se...

Miri spied the other girls stealing minutes of conversation at the woodpile or behind the academy. Perhaps they did not mean to exclude her, she thought, perhaps they were simply used to one anothe...

Miri heard the lowlander traders complain, but she was accustomed to heaps of rock chippings underfoot, fine white dust in the air, and mallets beating out the sound of the mountain's heartbeat. (1...

Quarry-speech used memories to carry messages. (9.40)

Normally she would shout hello, but over the past year a strange feeling had come inching into Miri, and now she was more likely to hide from him than flick pebbles at his backside. (1.48)