The Bird and the Blade Quotes

“And wilderness is paradise now.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“Just because she's one way doesn't mean you're the other, I try to tell myself. Her beauty doesn't make you ugly. Her intelligence doesn't make you stupid. Her value doesn't make you worthless.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“Cruelty is easy to repay, my lord. Kindness is another matter.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“The man who craves power is the one you cannot trust with it, but the man who is reluctant to lead becomes the greatest ruler of all.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“If kindness were a dagger, my heart would bleed itself dry.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“I thought I could guard my heart, but I might as well have tried to damn a river with a handful of pebbles.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“God does not judge you according to your appearance and your wealth, but He looks at your heart and looks into your deeds.' So please don't cry.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“I believe the world is not an entirely terrible place simply because this one decent person lives in it”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade

“A poem is not an object to give the hand but a treasure to give the mind.”
― Megan Bannen, The Bird and the Blade