The Armored Saint Quotes

“That love is worth it. It is worth any hardship, it is worth illness. It is worth injury. It is worth isolation. It is even worth death. For life without love is only a shadow of life.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“...while your thoughts are your own, the words you let pass your lips belong to the world, and the world will not always take the meaning you intended.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“There are those who wish to possess love utterly, to own it not just for themselves, but for all. Do you know how they possess it, Heloise? They own it by defining it. They say 'love is this' and 'love is that' and when others say it is something else, they imprison them, or flog them. Sometimes they kill them. My love was a thing outside the circle they had drawn.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“Never be sorry for loving, Heloise. No matter who it is, no matter how it is done, no matter how the person you love receives it. Love is the greatest thing a person can do. Most go their entire lives knowing only ritual and obligation, mistaking it for love. But you have loved truly, as few can ever hope to do, and so young.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“Fear is a deadly thing, Heloise. It can drain a person of all their strength, make them weak before their enemies.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“Hell is a word men use in place of fear.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“You have the heart of a Palantine,” Samson said. “And the bladder of an old man.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“Did we have to do it? She asked.
“No,” he answered, his voice breaking, tears falling into his beard to turn the flakes of ash to gray slush. “No, child. We didnt.”...
He took a deep break then spoke again. “And making us complicit means we will never call them to account for the crime.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“No matter what happened, try and take joy in the day, girl. We have precious few of them.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint

“No. It is a person you love. Not a name. Not a she or a he. A person in all their shining glory. There is a thing in us, Heloise. A seed. It makes us who we are. It is our core. That is the thing we love. It alone exists. It alone is holy. It has no home, no name. It is neither Male nor female. It is greater than that.”
― Myke Cole, The Armored Saint