An Accident of Stars Quotes

“Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“Life is hard. Some days we get our asses kicked, but apathy breeds more evils than defeat. So, you know. Keep fighting.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“And so I keep waiting for someone to come along and say to me, You’re traumatised, you need help, only nobody does, and so I can keep pretending I’m not and that I don’t, but that’s the point, isn’t it? As soon as we get home again, that’s all anyone will ever say to me, all they’ll ever see in me. Because–” “Because,” Gwen finished softly, “there’s no lie you can tell to explain all this that won’t leave people thinking you’re a victim of something horrific.” For a moment, the world fell away from her. “Am I, then?” Saffron asked hoarsely. “Is that what all this has made me? Just a victim? Nothing else? Because I still can’t decide whether coming here was the best or worst thing that’s ever happened to me, or if it can somehow be both and neither at the same time.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“We can’t keep living with what other people want for us, or don’t want for us,” Yena said. “We have to live for what we want. But everything that’s in your head, the things you’ve been told to believe and do, you can’t just throw it all out like bathwater, even when you know it’s hurting you. So”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“The ground keeps changing."
He gave her arm a gentle pinch. "Do you still think this is a dream?"
"All dreams change," said Saffron. "That's how you know they're dreams."
"So does reality," he replied. "That's how you know it's real.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“All dreams change,” said Saffron. “That’s how you know they’re dreams.” “So does reality,” he replied. “That’s how you know it’s real.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“In Veksh," said Trishka, "our mothers teach us that there's a type of story called zejhasa, the braided path: a new tale that starts before the old tale has ended, and which could not exist alone. Every life is zejhasa. Before we are born, our mothers live their own stories, and when we are young, our existence is twined with theirs - small threads in a wider pattern. But as we grow, these threads begin to separate, forming new strands, new lives, new purposes. Our mothers' stories go on, enriched; but ours will always begin before theirs have ended.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“Cursing, Gwen resettled herself , and found that her friend was looking up at her with the exact same expression she'd once worn while watching a much younger and boisterously drunk Gwen fall down an incline seconds after uttering the immortal phrase, "Nothing can stop me now!”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars

“And don’t ever make the mistake of thinking that things you didn’t intend or plan don’t matter. It’s a big, disorganised multiverse out there – an accident of stars. Almost nothing ever works out like we want it to, and when it does, there’s guaranteed to be unexpected consequences. Randomness is what separates life from entropy, but it’s also what makes it fun.”
― Foz Meadows, An Accident of Stars