Unquiet Land Quotes

“I think we broaden our minds and our experiences if we can learn to embrace things that at one point filled us with revulsion.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land

“Well, that's the lesson, I suppose," Zoe said. "We can never predict who will love us or where we'll feel love in return.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land

“It is always good to know who you are, what matters to you, and what you are capable of.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land

“I think my sacrifice was a counterweight in the great balance of justice. Because I was willing to give so much, Seka was willing to give so much. My actions in some sense inspired hers, even though neither of us knew what the other was planning. She probably slipped from camp with Mally in her arms the minute I swallowed the fatal dose. The universe loves such symmetry.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land

“They had begun telling each other stories about their childhoods and young adult years - adventures and misadventures that occurred before the great calamities that had sent each of them, ten years apart, into exile in Malinqua ..... But they never mentioned the calamities themselves - the circumstances, the occurrences, the conversations, the miscalculations, the emotions. It was if each of them had excised crucial years from their lives and spliced the remaining part together into one imperfect whole. Such a feat should have made them both seem younger, Leah thought, but the opposite was true. Each of them carried those missing years around as if they had spanned twice the allotted days; each of them had been aged by events. Each of them had been broken.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land

“Mally likes to have boundaries. She likes to know that making a choice means she has to give up something else. She likes to think that actions have consequences. It makes her feel like the world makes sense.”
― Sharon Shinn, Unquiet Land