65 quotes found
“Slaves do not have the bravery of free men.”
“I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so muc...”
“Sevro." I lean forward. "Your eyes..."He leans in close. "Do you like 'em?""Bloodydamn. Did you get Carved?""By the best in the business. Do you like 'em?""They're bloodydamn marvelous. Fit you lik...”
“Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. Its amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it dow...”
“Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.”
“There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.”
“And there's the beauty of space. A billion paths to choose.”
“You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.""Fair enough.”
“The Golds dance in pairs,Obsidians in threes, Grays in dozens. We dance alone, because only alone do Helldivers drill.~Uncle Narol”
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
“They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do natures work so that we do not become a soft race.”
“I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.”
“I still remember the flush of blood in her cheeks as she danced. She was all the raw colours of life, the crude beauty of nature. I am the human concept of beauty. Gold made soft and supple in man'...”
“Rather a drink be my master than a man.”
“My chair rolls to a stop. his voice cut short, followed by a thump and sliding sound. My wheelchair rolls forward again. I look back and see Ragnar pushing it innocently along. Sevro isn't in the h...”
“Darrow: "Does he really believe believe in magic?" I ask.Daxo Au Telemanus: "He says gnomes steals ear wax from him at night. Mother thinks he's been hit too many times in the head." Daxo backs awa...”
“It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I would have been jostled by men I'd grown up with, run across girls I'd chased and wrestled with as...”
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak.“Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the loudertheir voice, the deeper t...”
“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair”
“Power is the crown that eats the head,”...”
