Kismet's Gate Quotes

“Well, how was I supposed to warn him, Anara? I don’t actually speak out loud; you just hear it in your head. What am I supposed to do, mime it for him?”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen

“They used their religious texts as cudgels for their own righteousness, not as guidebooks for their lives.”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen

“She put down her sword, turned, and kissed him. It was a sloppy, blood-filled, iron-tasting kiss. Not of sex, but of love. Of grief. Of relief.”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen

“He had thought himself a master of discipline, but now, he felt like a man staring at the edge of a cliff, realizing he had never learned how to fall.”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen

“Loose ends are dangerous. – Anara
Loose ends are people. – Jarek”
― S.X. Cummings, Kismet's Gate: The Scarred and the Chosen