The Tyrant's Law Quotes

“The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.'

'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from it's place. They're all like that.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“Love is noble,” the magistra said. “And so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren’t so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“That's the whole world. You. Me. The sea, the sky. Every retching thing there is. It's all a dream the dragons dream, and if the last dragon ever wakes up, we're fu*ked.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“carried in by the waves.” “Or it might have been dropped by someone walking”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“in Clara’s”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“Arrogance doesn’t weigh much,” Marcus said. “No heft to it.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“Job is we kill a goddess and save the world. Let’s not complicate it.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“There was a kind of consolation in the thought that nothing lasts forever.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“Losing everything was still losing everything, however little someone began with.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law

“We say our souls want joy, but they don’t,” she said. “They want what they already know, joyful or not.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant's Law