Empire Ascendant Quotes

“Power is nothing without discipline. Power without discipline is short lived.”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant

“If it wasn't the Tai Mora, who would we fight? Ourselves? The Dhai? The Dorinah? Always another face, always the same face.”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant

“Someone had to fight the monsters. Who better than a monster?”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant

“The wonderful thing about being ignorant is that it can be resolved very easily. Foolishness cannot.”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant

“I love birds. I love to cage them, you see, because when you first do it, they fight so terribly hard. They are so alive, so defiant. I measure how long it takes for them to lose their spirit. To stop fighting. To resign themselves to their fate....They all give up, eventually. They are all in a cage, you see. There is no way out.”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant

“His militia escorted her up four painful flights of stairs to a great foyer, apologizing the whole way for not considering how difficult stairs would be for her. What they really meant, of course, was that they felt silly and impatient because her pace was so much slower than theirs.”
― Kameron Hurley, Empire Ascendant