62 quotes
Syenite wonders if there is any point in hating a crazy man. It’s not like he’ll notice, anyway.
The Fifth Season (2015)
I’d come down sick. (I had. It was called adolescence, an evil, evil disease.)
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
That was the way of things, after all. Children had to grow up. They did not always become what others wanted.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.
Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)
There was no point in making myself suffer unnecessarily. As a mortal, there would be pain enough in my life, whether I sought it out or not.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
We were all exposed to nothing but white dude fiction, occasionally young white women fiction, and if that’s how you’ve grown up, then that is what is normal.
My people didn’t use mysterious powers to track you; we used deduction. Much more reliable.
The Fifth Season (2015)
This was what I’d asked her to give me. I had no right to complain just because it wasn’t what I wanted to hear.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
The Broken Kingdoms (2010)
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the Fifth, and master of all.
The Fifth Season (2015)
It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)
Very quickly I fell in with others like me—newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.
The Broken Kingdoms (2010)
It is a massive palace, each spire of which could house a village; its chambers contain dozens of entertainments. All of these become tedious to the point of torment after two thousand years. Hells, after twenty.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
Sky’s forecourt had been designed by my late sister, Kurue, who had understood two key elements of the mortal psyche: they hate being reminded of their own insignificance, yet they simultaneously and instinctively expect their leaders to be overwhelmingly dominant.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
Weapons have no need of friends.
The Fifth Season (2015)
There is no logic to grief.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)
All energy is the same, through its different states and names. Movement creates heat which is also light that waves like sound which tightens or loosens the atomic bonds of crystal as they hum with strong and weak forces. In mirroring resonance with all of this is magic, the radiant emission of life and death.
The Stone Sky (2017)
I think you’re just so gods-damned certain of your own importance that you haven’t figured it out. So let me make this clear: I don’t care about you. You’re irrelevant. It’s a waste of my energy even to hate you!”
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)
My job is to help the world..That is what an artist's job is—to the degree that we can. That is nothing more than holding up a mirror and saying, 'You're beautiful, baby.' Or holding up a mirror and saying, 'Look at the shit that you're doing to yourself. Maybe you should stop.' It is an artist's job to speak truth to power.
The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.
The Kingdom of Gods (2011)