The Walled City Quotes

“There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“The braid is always stronger than the strand.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“There are three rules of survival in the Walled City: Run fast. Trust no one. Always carry your knife.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“It doesn't matter that she's holding those keys. None of them lets her outside.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“Now that I know, I can't unsee her girlness. The turned curve of her nose, the slant of her cheeks. How her eyelashes curl up just so. It would be a mistake to think that any of these things mean she's fragile. The very fact that she's sitting here, eight days after being stabbed, is testament to that.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

“But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the Walled City.”
― Ryan Graudin, The Walled City