17 quotes found
Novel by Erika Johansen
“Pain only disables the weak.”
“Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.”
“I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.”
“I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man.”
“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in mans nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
“The problems of the past.How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.”
“I'll govern for the good of the governed.I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land a...”
“Why do you have such a nice Bible? Kelsea asked.The Bible is a book, Kelsea, a book that has influenced mankind for thousands of years. It deserves to be preserved in a good edition, just like any ...”
“This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.”
“We're going up there," she told them. "To the Keep. Your first instinct will be to protect me, I know-""Here it comes," Dyer muttered"But do me a favor and protect each other. Understand, Dyer?""Ye...”
“Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people, and the divide drawn by the early iteration of God's Church helped to exacerbate the many ideological faul...”
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
“Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.”
“And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then r...”
“This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to whatever they want, whatever they can grab. Such people never ask themselves if they have the right. They consi...”
“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
“Why do you have such a nice Bible?” Kelsea asked.“The Bible is a book, Kelsea, a book that has influenced mankind for thousands of years. It deserves to be preserved in a good edition, just like an...”
