The Foretelling of Georgie Spider Quotes

“I am of the world.' He nodded at Neville. 'And so was this man. There were thousands like him, in my time. People who could wrap foul deeds in righteous words. Men and women who made it acceptable for others to give voice to their hate and their petty desire to hurt or humiliate or exclude.' His face grew grimmer still. 'You have no idea - none - of the true scale of the evile of which people like Neville Rose are capable. Nor should you. His time has passed.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“They were telling me that there was always danger. Storms came, and treecats, and lizards to steal eggs. What mattered was that while you were here, you sang.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“Because extraordinary people shouldn't wish to be ordinary.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“It has larger implications. As change gathers momentum, people will STOP arguing over whether there should be alterations to the Accords and START arguing abot what exactly the changes should be or how fast they should happen. If we can get to that point, the end of the Citizenship Accords becomes...inevitable.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“Neville enjoys hurting people. But most of the time, he doesn't LOOK like someone who enjoys hurting people - he comes across like a friendly grandfather. And when he talks about abilities being unnatural, he sounds sorry about it. Regretful, you know?...He does the most terrible things and there're STILL people who think he did it for the right reasons. Neville...makes it seem reasonable to hate. Reasonable to do anything to anyone, in the name of preserving the Balance. When the whole time all he's really interested in is getting his hands on more victims.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“All life matters or none does. All people matter or none do.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“Everything connects, Grandpa had told me once, but not everyone hear's those connections.
I could sense the fragmentation, the disconnection from others and from the earth. I knew every variety of it. The twisted viciousness of Neville, and Terence. The indifference of the Citizens who never spoke out about the Accords because they didn't think our suffering was theirs. The minions, who'd hated themselves so much they'd been willing to do anything to anybody to be part of the world that rejected them.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider

“I petted his ears, my dog who'd preserved my chances to save the world. He'd activated my ability in the moment when I could dream a dream for everybody, and now enough of the world was trying to live the dream that there wouldn't be a blizzard of disconnection. People wouldn't become blind to other people's existences, or deaf to their voices, or cold and indifferent to their pain.”
― Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Foretelling of Georgie Spider