readinginmars

[readinginmars]

"You people. You make me sick. Living in perpetual denial. Never questioning. Never thinking about anything beyond your tiny, ignorant lives."

A Song of Legends Lost - M. H. Ayinde

[readinginmars]

"Our whole history is a lie. Who we are. What the greybloods are. What our world is. All of it. It is a lie, made to keep us in our place."

A Song of Legends Lost - M. H. Ayinde

[readinginmars]

"Perhaps she too hoped that if she turned her face from the world, the world would forget she existed."

A Song of Legends Lost - M. H. Ayinde

[readinginmars]

"History, faded to myth and then forgotten, can be lost. But the power remains, steeped into the stone like blood. Do not ask if that power is good or evil. Ask who plans to draw it out and use it."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"There were many things Neema might do, in an emergency. Stealing from a library was not one of them."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"If you don’t value your strengths, you won’t use them. If you don’t recognise your flaws, you won’t defeat them."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"The Dragons have a saying. 'Do not ask the sea for treasure. Wait upon the shore, and it will come.' I shall say nothing to the Hounds. I shall take no revenge upon you. I have only to wait upon the shore. The waves will take you, soon enough."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"I warned her to let things be. No one thanks a dog for digging up rubbish."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"She would rather choose to keep silent, than have silence imposed upon her."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"Each day," the Scriptures said, "in times of light, in times of shadow, seek for one small pearl of joy and you shall find it."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"Life," he declaimed, taking a swig, "is a puzzle with no answer; a game with no rules; a maze with no exit, except death. And still we stumble on through the dark, creating form where there is none, seeing patterns that are not there."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"Do you know what I saw? The same thing I see now. Nothing. A void, where a soul should be. An empty shell of a man. So you may call me what you wish, Tiger contender. In a thousand lifetimes, I would rather be a fool, than whatever you are."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"How can we be lost, when we don't know where we're going?"

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"Make yourself useful, and you're going to get used."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"People were puzzles, Neema thought. Not fun ones, with prizes. They were puzzles that made no sense, and gave no answer, and broke your heart for no reason."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"Spite, she could handle. Kindness always knocked her sideways."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

[readinginmars]

"It's what you do that matters, not who you are."

The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson