Nothing is more dangerous than fearful people with a fresh taste of power.
Never forget what you are.
For some of us, things have always been hard, and I wrote the Broken Earth trilogy to speak to that struggle, and what it takes to live, let alone thrive, in a world that seems determined to break you.
Didn’t want to wait for death to come for you. Right. Stupid, stupid woman. Death was always here. Death is you.
But if he can find your daughter, he can be the Evil Earth incarnate and you won’t give a damn.
There is peace in submission, but sometimes greater peace – lasting peace – in resistance.
There was nothing we mortals would not do when it came to protecting our loved ones.
What good does it do to be valuable, if nobody values you?
Grief sounds like a bad thing,” I said, frowning. “Why don’t you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?” “That would require removing love from existence.
There was no peace in continuing to do what had already proven unworkable. Sometimes tradition itself disrupted peace, and only newness could smooth the way.
Ah, my love. An apocalypse is a relative thing, isn’t it?
Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.
Peace is meaningless without freedom.
His faith sustains him – and faith is so easy to break.
Necessity is the only law, says stonelore.
She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.
She means to wait here with me. I’m glad. Some things are easier when not faced alone.
Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. – Tablet One, “On Survival,” verse three.
In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess... I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it; well, not until it kills you anyway.