Quotes from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“в робството си вярвах, че тази любов ще ме освободи”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Не можеш да спечелиш нищо, ако не си готов да го изгубиш - всичко или част.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as the Institute did, in thrall to the patronage of men with blind dreams of empire. Society was not bettered by such men of "vision" - though, if Chang was honest, was it bettered by anyone?”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Heroines did not pick their own battles—the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she’d carried a man’s strength and her father’s horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril—treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition objective, even scientific, in nature.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him—but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one’s actions rather than one’s lack of them.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

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