Everfair Quotes

“I've found something out about myself. I can't bow to another man.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“The steampunk genre often works as a form of alternate history, showing us how small changes to what actually happened might have resulted in momentous differences: clockwork Victorian-era computers, commercial transcontinental dirigible lines, and a host of other wonders. This is that kind of book.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“She had learned from experience that scared men were dangerous”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“They were losing. No. They had lost.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“That was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“There’s always a war, somewhere,” said Albert, the first to recover. “The masters take care that’ll be the case.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Practical dreamers,” he said. “That’s what we are. Dreamers, but realistic about it. Heads in the clouds, but our feet on the ground.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“He had trusted to his enemy's basic humanity to preserve them. This was the cost of that folly.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“This was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Lost: Two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Her darling. Perhaps Rima was right, and Lisette should abandon Daisy and, with her, Everfair. Beliefs like the ones that had had hurt Lisette must be unpicked with utmost care from the weave of Daisy’s mind to keep them from causing more harm. She didn’t want to undertake such an onerous task of finding and pulling out the myriad noxious threads of assumed superiority that twisted through her love’s disdain of the mixing of races. But who else could? Who else had a good grasp of the problem? And if no one took it on? Who else besides Daisy would want her, by now an old woman of forty-five?”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair