Across a Star-Swept Sea

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky.

Across the sea and up the stair The Wild Poppy’s everywhere. Though southmen search until they’re blind They know not what they seek to find.

I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.

Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.

Day by day, the superficial mask she’d donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn’t help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.

Because I know from experience that sometimes its only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world

It was amazing, all the thoughts that oozed out as soon as a single crack appeared in the surface of your beliefs.