When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are
Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.
It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U. S. became the land of the self-made man, in which not only did you make a fortune but you could make up everything else about yourself as well. You move into a new town with a spurious pedigreed background and you just make yourself up.