he killed random--unicorn! king random--over that stupid bitch.
Orinda's first thought on hearing of Random's death
You're a woman, Orinda. We know what it is to be weak.
Vialle
Vialle was the only one who'd ever been able to get through to Gerard when he was out of control.
Orinda
A Queen in Amber! Without a king in Amber!
Flora
[Vialle] and Uncle Gerard have been making eyes at each other and suffering tortured angst for some time now; it was easy for him to insist that the army wasn't coming back when it meant her husband wasn't.
Orinda to Flora
Sorcery seems to be something of which Gerard has scant knowledge, though from what I have heard one might expect the Queen to be more familiar with it. Coming from her realm, yes.
Merlin
Vialle is exactly as viable as Gerard's protection makes her. So long as Gerard runs things, she has access to the Blood and the Gifts and can hold the throne with them.
Riley
I spoke next to Vialle, to offer my condolences. It was the first time, I think, that I had really seen her. I almost wonder whether the woman was the same one who kept order in Castle Amber for that decade; I would like to think I would have known, but she was very, very good. And she and I had never been close. So we sat there, she and I, and spoke of her husband and her lover and how things stood in our own private Hell of Amber.
And I made my second near-fatal mistake: I trusted her.
Orinda to Martin's partisans, in Ghenesh
... the silence that Gerard would have kept if he were the prince he pretended to be, that Vialle would have kept if she loved Random as she claimed.
Orinda in her diary
Remember too that she was in many ways an outcast, so... It's hard to speak of her relationship with any of the Ladies of the Court. No doubt her marriage to my father improved her status in Rebma, had she returned there to enjoy it.
Martin
As long as she's alive, she's a threat. Think about what your father or Uncle Bleys could do with her as a figurehead.
Orinda to Archer
I've killed men, Yarken, and I've made decisions that have caused men to die, but I've never let a man be murdered because I was too weak, because I chose to be too weak to gainsay it.
Orinda
Or perhaps she's a Rebman agent, and her job was to disrupt things here for Moire, who has no reason not do such a thing, being a rival of Amber. If so she's been a success beyond anyone's wildest dreams, whether or not she has a mistress left to report to.
Orinda to Yarken
... the fact that I am bothering to speak to you at all should tell you that my intention is not to, as you call it, 'cast defiance in your face'.
Orinda to Vialle
You have had your reasons to be angry with Us personally, and We with you.
Vialle to Orinda
This - is - CRUEL!! How can you hate me so, Lady, to parade this - imposter before me! My husband's voice, my husband's scent. His palpable manner. NOT MY HUSBAND! WHAT, MY LADY, WILL YOU NOT STOOP TO!
Vialle to Orinda
What it comes down to is you really hate this woman, don't you?
I hate what's happened to all the people I love. If that makes me hate her, I guess I do.
"Valgard" and Orinda
They say she loved him. If I could ask her one question, it would be: how does it feel to have the man who slew your lover touch your body? The hands that held his head under the water caress your hair? The fingers that wrapped around his throat part your legs? How could you do that?
Orinda
William! She'll kill me! You have to save me from her - !
Vialle
I did what I could do, which was nothing. And I saw the good in your father's murderer. My Lord Martin, I am most heartily sorry your father was murdered by a good m -
Vialle's last words
Winona Ryder is Vialle