An Age of Winters Quotes

“But truth is not always what the people want.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“Here, we could be whoever we wanted to be, unshackled to our fates.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“But it be the other hand I was unsure of. The hand that usually holds the secrets that people don’t show about themselves.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“her.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“And though I liked the wandering eye of certain men, his was not the eye I sought.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“With her chin raised she had a look of someone older, someone knowing. I felt the force of her, a woman with confidence, a woman unrattled. Women knew women. We knew that our power was sometimes silence, sometimes distance, that we were careful, that we were shrewd. And if we were to reveal such secrets, we might become weaker, easy prey.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“I recoiled from him then and felt conspicuous for it, too, for belonging to the crowd that worshipped death.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters

“In hindsight, Stern, though odious to live with, sometimes attacked dogma and leadership, and more often spoke truth. But truth is not always what the people want.”
― Gemma Liviero, An Age of Winters