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Quotes from Orphans of Chaos — John C. Wright

born 1961 United States

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Everyone loses in war, even the winners.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

I will grant you three wishes, but do not ask for immortality without asking for eternal youth.

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You all think I am a coward, when all I am is polite.

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It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.

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I cannot describe myself except to say that I am either very vain or very beautiful, and that I hope I am the latter, while suspecting I may be the former.

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Miss Daw said, half to herself, “Now you have had your first lesson in what it is like to be a real grown-up woman in a man’s world, my dear. We are judged by our looks, and men are not.”

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“What can you do?”
“I can bring you in dream to one who dreams of you.”
“Will that help me?”
“No. But you will come, because you will hope that it will.”

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“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”
“They hatch bad luck.”

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Yes, I prayed. Why not? The advantage of being an agnostic over being an atheist is that I always had the possibility of being wrong, and could still entertain the hope that the universe was better organized than it appeared to be.

Orphans of Chaos (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John C. Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.