11 quotes
I want your help to destroy the universe.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Her life was a complete mess, true, but it could be straightened out. All it would take was money. Money could straighten out anything, if you had enough of it.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
For all that she’d had no great expectations for it, sex was turning out to be even more squalid, tawdry, and cynical than she had suspected it would.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
“I can’t figure you out.”
“You’re not supposed to.”
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
The loyalty of the systematically betrayed. Is there anything sadder?
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Incolore sighed. “The loyalty of the systematically betrayed. Is there anything sadder?”
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Oh, Sirin, how could you? You know as well as I do how dangerous scrying the future can be. Half the time what it shows you wouldn’t happen if you hadn’t foreseen it.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
Hierarchies only work to the benefit of those on the top. If you’re high, you’ll get by. If you’re low, out you go! That’s how it is.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
“What was all that about?”
“It’s an occupational hazard...You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.”
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
“We’ll be taking out the front gate and the Time Clock, and blasting the Goddess Stone to gravel.” She felt wild, free, vengeful, obscene—unstoppable. “Serving the Bitch notice.” She knew that there was no Goddess, save as a metaphor for what was otherwise inconceivable, that the forces they were going up against were as impersonal as they were vast. But it felt more satisfying this way.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)
The universe has backed you into another corner—you can kill or die. There are no other choices. Doesn’t that make you angry? Doesn’t it make you want revenge? Or are you going to truckle to Dame Fate one more time, to be crushed and for all I know resurrected to run the maze of torment again and yet again? Stand up on your hind legs for once!
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993)