“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.
"Little *bitch*," he snapped.
Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public,” Vedris always said. “They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“Things change,” Daja said softly. “We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It’s safer.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
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“You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, quote from Acceptance
“Even through the dulling effects of the pill, he wanted to be rid of his itching brain, his ignited skin, the flesh beneath, to in some way become so ethereal and Unbound to the earth that he could unsee, disavow, disavow”
― Jeff VanderMeer, quote from Authority
“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from Dreamtigers
“I found out what was right only by getting it wrong.”
― Rachel Joyce, quote from The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“The past is a foreign country.” —L. P. Hartley”
― Annie Jacobsen, quote from Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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