Four Ruined Realms Quotes

“But if I abandon what I love just to live, what kind of life is that?”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Life is for living, for making mistakes and wringing the most out of good moments because the bad will always be there.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“There’s an old expression in my village that sometimes the tongue isn’t ready to speak what the eyes have seen. I believe that.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“kill what you hate or protect what you love. It’s harder than it sounds.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“It’s so much easier to sink to the level of everybody else.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Every person dies. The difference is in how they live.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Hate can overcome and defeat goodness. Hate has the advantage of being easier.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“I think we’ve all done things we aren’t proud of,” I say. “I think a person is more than the strikes against them. At least I’d like to believe we are.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Maybe mercy is a privilege of the powerful.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Poison can taste like candy when you’re starving.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Without burning anger, all you’re left with is the embers of grief. In many ways, fury is better because at least it’s something to cling to. Sadness is a barren expanse.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“My heart fills as I watch them. This world is brimming with unkindness. It takes a brave hand to carve out a small piece of happiness and to stand ready to defend it.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“But the men aren’t as forgiving of the binds put on women.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“But maybe the good naturally rises above like curds and whey.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“and one small bed. It’ll barely fit the two of us. I laugh.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“But now that it was all for nothing, everything rushes back. The pleas for mercy, the cries and death throes echo in my head. the ghosts of past wrongs stand over me... My shoulders fall, the weight too much. the gurgling, the begging, the tears. I put my palms over my ears to make it stop. Doesn't help because the sound is in me.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Our loved ones hang in the balance. If it can’t be trust”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“You can only lie to yourself about being loved for as long as you don’t know what real love feels like.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Innocence is a cheap flower to be plucked and torn apart by powerful men.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“There are scars we display, and then there are the ones we don’t want anyone to see. Aeri trusted me with the darkest parts of her story, the deep, ugly wounds, and I think she’s more beautiful for surviving them. The darkness makes me appreciate her light.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“Ambassador Zeolin is a tall, thin man with dignified gray hair who I currently have hanging from his office window.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms

“I would be careful with picking my lock in the future. I didn’t have time to set up traps, but I will.” I look at Aeri and Royo. How did he know we broke in? I made sure not to touch anything, and Royo locked the door as we left.”
― Mai Corland, Four Ruined Realms