A Forgery of Fate Quotes

“Fortune finds those who leap, my Tru. Whatever yours is—riches or love or adventure—you make it yourself. Nothing is predetermined. Not by the gods, not by the lines on your palm or the creases on your brow.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“A girl who paints the future, A cursed dragon lord. Bound by love and deception, They will bring down the gods.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“His arm wrapped around my wrist as he brought me safely onto the roof. I whirled on him. “I wasn’t going to fall.” “I wasn’t going to take the chance.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“Gray is the color of truth. The same in art as it is in life, nothing is ever as black and white as it looks.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“In a glittering cloud, the demon misted out of the opal. “Lying to your
husband so early in your marriage?” she jabbed. “Doesn’t bode well for
your future together.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“The boat rocked as I coughed. “What is this?” I fanned away the
potion’s fumes. “It smells like—”
“Rotted rat liver?”
My entire face puckered. That was very specific.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“I would have kissed a rat to sink my teeth into something that had actual spice and crunch.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“I wish we'd had a chance together. Friends from the start, with no secrets or lies hanging between us. I wish we might have fallen in love the ordinary way, holding hands and stealing kisses under the trees. Watching the seasons change, and growing old together...in this life, in every life.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate

“which anyone could have guessed from breakfast.

Usually our morning fare was watery vegetable broth and burnt rice, but today a feast awaited us. There was fish congee with all the toppings-chives and dried shrimp and salted eggs and an enormous pan of fried crullers, her specialty. Mama only made crullers when she foresaw good tidings in our future.

"This is the trip that's going to change everything," she'd said, dropping a cruller into Nomi's bowl of congee. "I can feel it." After we ate, she gathered us around Baba. "Come, ask your father what presents you'd like him to bring back.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Forgery of Fate