Jen Williams > Quotes

“Any institution that claims to keep women locked up for their own good should be watched very close, in my opinion.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“There is, it seems to me, a certain type of man who is terrified of the idea of a woman wielding power, of any sort; the type of man who is willing to dress up his terror in any sort of trappings to legitimise it.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“Don't be afraid of who you are.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“It's always the same with family, Wydrin reflected. You spend your life consumed with guilt that you're letting them down somehow, and then when you meet up with them you can't wait to get away again.”
― Jen Williams, The Copper Promise

“Show me a people who don't have a bloody history.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“What you brought back, darling, was the truth. Which is rarely comfortable and never painless, but often, ultimately, worth knowing.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Life is suffering. Life is war, and sacrifice. Life is victory.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“Not born of love, or affection, but a simple terrible need not to feel alone, just for a little while.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“We build walls around our cities, the edges of towns are closely watched, and travel is a dangerous occupation, fit only for the mad and desperate.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“obviously the clearest course of action is to get closer to the thing that might explode.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“This war. There is so much sorrow, so much pain.’ ‘That’s all war.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“When your world has been at war forever, how do you know peace?”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Judging by the constellations just starting to glint into life, the scent of the wind and the texture of the earth... I would say we're precisely in the middle of nowhere.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“A fire that burns in secret, a lethal conflagration that you can only discover when its too late to save anyone.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Beginnings are very elusive things, almost as elusive as true endings.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“It was a simple choice, really - live as a prisoner for the rest of her life, or take the freedom she was offered. The consequences of a rebellion were ... unthinkable.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“This level of fuck up is an Eboran speciality.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Words are always important,’ said Jolnir. ‘Even normal, non-magical words, in the right place, can change the world.”
― Jen Williams, The Copper Promise

“Beginnings and endings, flesh and bone, ink and paper. These are what stories are made of.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Just between you and me, I've never crawled up a monster's arse before. It's quite exciting. - Vintage”
― Jen Williams, The Bitter Twins

“Stay strong, my bravest, dearest friends. We fly as one.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“All of us back together under the same roof - that’s a bloody good end to this mess if you ask me.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Fear can keep you obedient, or the need to stay as free as you can.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Our armies, with their shining armour and singing swords are rust and dusty bones. We are like... an echo of something that came before.”
― Jen Williams, The Bitter Twins

“To be suddenly alone when all you have ever known is connection. To be alone in the dark while you felt the distant pieces of yourself decay.”
― Jen Williams, The Bitter Twins

“Dark things are happening here, don't be getting me wrong. Young people lost, their poor families going out of their minds, and that evil thing lurking... It should have been dealt with a long time ago, but how could we have known?”
― Jen Williams, The Bitter Twins

“Hoards of the white monsters”
― Jen Williams, The Bitter Twins

“It doesn’t look like much, but it’s actually pretty tasty, if you cook it for long enough. And douse it in wine. And drink lots of wine while you’re eating it. And drink lots of wine afterwards, so you forget what you were just eating.”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“when you say "technical problem", vintage, are we talking about the sort of technical problem that resoults in the whole thing exploding like it did the other week?”
― Jen Williams, The Ninth Rain

“They flew on, and with a roar and a blast of flame, the dragon followed.”
― Jen Williams, The Copper Promise