“So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“People need to be touched and talked to, they need to know somebody else in the world cares.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Nettie's one-eyed glare was flat, her patience gone. "I'm the feller that's going to kill you."
"You're not a feller."
"That's not yours to decide.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl.” Nettie”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Being a person was mighty twisty, and yet she didn’t want to go back to being nothing.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Nettie scanned the shed for anything useful, but all she saw were big, clumsy things, like hoes and plows and men.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“I am a soldier in my father's army.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Kiss of Deception
“Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, quote from The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“Thou knowest not what bitches women are," Danny said wisely.
"I do know," said Pilon.
"Thou knowest not."
"I do know."
"Liar.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from Tortilla Flat
“In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.”
― Maria V. Snyder, quote from Magic Study
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