In Ashes Born Quotes

“If you didn’t drink coffee, you wouldn’t need it in the morning.” “If I didn’t drink coffee, I wouldn’t need morning,”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Your reality shifted just enough for you to question what you thought you knew.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“I’m looking for a ship,” Pip said. “Did you check the docks?” she asked. “Maybe your other pants? Where did you see it last?”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“grin lit up his entire face again. “Yeah. The family we’re born in has values and mores that color what we believe for our entire lives. Usually those values provide a firm foundation for growth. If they didn’t, the family of origin wouldn’t exist.” “All right.” “Sometimes, those values get—oh—misapplied, we’ll say. As each subsequent generation passes on the values, those values can evolve. Even be outgrown.” “I’m with you.” I understood what he was saying but I wasn’t sure I liked where he was going. “So, between now and our next session, I want you to ponder your families of origin and what values they passed on to you.” “Families?” “Your mother is your initial family of origin and you’re carrying a lot of her influence with you. Then Alys Giggone took over as a kind of surrogate mother, and the values you learned in her family are even stronger.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Sometimes when your world view becomes too skewed from reality, it’s difficult to realign what you think you know with what is real.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“like any good lawyer’s office kept up appearances with some wood-grain panels and a quiet hum that seemed so familiar I wondered if there might not be a noise generator someplace that piped the sound on demand.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“inner dissonance about who you think you are and who you think you should be.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Command messes up people who aren’t sociopaths to begin with. Empathy starts chewing on the good ones. Ego blinds the bad ones. A well-adjusted sociopath makes the most effective captain, but few people want to serve with one.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Maybe I was paying it forward for the lessons that I learned from Cookie and Alys Giggone about doing the best job you know how, even if it’s more than is being asked for.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born

“Her cups—each unique—found homes in an old wooden sorting tray. I noticed one empty slot in what I’d remembered as a full rack. “You’re missing a cup?” Her fingers went to the empty slot in gentle caress. “It fell.”
― Nathan Lowell, In Ashes Born