The Nemesis Quotes

“How to salvage a dream, when the dreamer himself had been destroyed?”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I saw love on his face. It was real. A villain could love. He loved me. But love was no reason, no justification, no excuse.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I want your soul. I've already lost mine. Join me in a beautiful, shared damnation-and this entire galaxy will fall prostrate at our feet.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“You're in my blood. We could be parted for centuries and I'll always recognize you.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Everyone wishes someone would come and save them, and no one ever does.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I would have desired nothing more than a life with you, but we were not fated to be.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“When people begin to question this lie," he was saying, "several things will happen: those who believe it-or claim to-will become increasingly frenzied and irrational in their defense of it. They will see it as an attack upon their belief, as an attack on their stature, their influence, their credibility. To admit they were wrong will seem unthinkable. The more glaringly obvious the lie becomes, the more desperate their conviction will become-and they will go to intolerable lengths to prove themselves right.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“So I gazed out at the pitch black of hyperspace and envisioned those arcs of history, and hoped upon all the stars that we were in the right place, at the right time, for fortune to favor us.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Artwork is the very expression of the human soul. That is the power in it, Nemesis. That's the reason every petty tyrant seeks to censor, control, shame, or dictate to artists. If you can control them, you can control the ideas of the human soul.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“He forced away his doubts. They did not return until the worst way doubts can come-far too late.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I, a single person, am arbitrarily making a decision for everyone else in this galaxy that the Empire needs to come to an end - to put a stop to small numbers of people holding exorbitant power. I alone am making this decision. You see where I run into my own hypocrisy. And that's why I cannot halt the doubts. Fundamentally, I am all that I mean to oppose - even in my act of opposition.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“They squandered fortunes, knowing their wealth could not be exhausted. They intoxicated themselves, knowing the damage could be healed. They lived amid intense beauty, but their apprecia- tion of it was dulled by how easily and often they came by it. When everything was gifted, nothing had value.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Perhaps there was a fundamental evil in turning your back to a situation when you still had the power to change it.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I would have welcomed anger, embraced it, for anger was simple - so much simpler than this hideous sorrow I felt at the sight of the broken, destroyed soul I'd once loved”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“A villain's love was no love worth having”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Held hostage to our own genetic design, destroyed by our inbuilt capacity for unwavering devotion. We had been created to love villains-to gladly offer our throats to their knives.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Both Neveni and Tyrus had welcomed death and I'd clawed them back from it with their lasting animosity as my only reward.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“It was easy to convince oneself of a lie you wished to believe. Hadn't I done just that when I'd decided that Tyrus was insane rather than irredeemable?”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“If I live, I live. If I die, so be it. It will be on our terms. Not his. You never betrayed me. And now, you have not betrayed yourself”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Better to have let Tyrus die that day on the Tigris. Better to have mourned him-the one I loved more than myself-than grow to hate the ruination of him that I knew now.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“I had once been able to read his moods, but now, even his voice sounded strange to me. Lower, rougher. A man's voice, a man's body. And a madman's mind.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Nemesis Lives. I hated those words. I'd begun to loathe my own name. I hated the image glowering at me from the wall of that alley, for it was a lie. It promised them a savior, a legend, a myth-and I was but a defeated ruin of what I'd once imagined myself.
Everything I had loved, I had managed to destroy.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“This was no god, but it was certainly a cynical, power-grasping megalomaniac, and the Empire had long shaped itself around just such tyrants”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“But even as he hugged his father back, he knew he would never feel safe again. For the purpose of his existence had been made clear under the bloody light of the malignancy, and there was only one way to achieve it.
He would claim the throne and become the Emperor. Then he would save the galaxy.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Only this year, at the age of nine, had Tyrus discovered how good it was to be an ordinary boy-not the Emperor's heir, but a simple child of no importance. An ordinary child obeyed and was guided by his elders. In return, he was given the freedom to explore, to make mistakes, to ask questions, to play. An ordinary child fell asleep without fear and woke up carefree.
But an ordinary child could not ask the Emperor to save a planet.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“For their young Emperor had turned into a terror, a creature of unpredictable moods and merciless whims”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis

“Reality has no power against a collective delusion,”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Nemesis