Echo of Worlds Quotes

“All these selves were under my protection now, and no god ever invented could have been more jealous of his covenant.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“You were a person who’d had to do questionable things to survive. The people who’ve never needed to make those choices don’t get to judge the people who did.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“The last thing she wanted was to wake up one day and find that she gave a shit.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“Most of what you think of as your consciousness is neurons firing at random and making up an explanation for it afterwards. It’s not your fault. You were whittled into this shape by a million years of evolution. That’s why there’s a war on. You saw something you didn’t understand, and you tried to bite it.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“She paused, giving Paz a quizzical appraisal, “Also, bunny and heavy armor, that’s both cute and hilarious."
“I’m coming with you!“ Paz told her.
Moon blinked, but took it in her stride. “Fine, you’ll be one more thing for the guns to aim at that isn’t me, same questions slightly louder.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“I knew the warning was useless. They would learn the hard way because the hard way was the way they knew. I couldn’t protect them from themselves, even if I’d wanted to. Nobody had that power. And on some level I think I felt that if they were going to learn the lesson at all it would probably need to hurt at least a little.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“She was having to work at it to keep her old grudges alive in the face of all this new shit she had to go berserk about.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds

“Baxemides’ instinct right then was to push forward at a headlong run in a bid to outpace any doubts and misgivings that might be coming on her from behind.”
― M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds