The Iron Flower Quotes

“We don’t get to choose what we are,” she says finally, her voice low. “But we do get to choose who we are.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Knowledge is never wasted, my dear. No matter how obscure or difficult...or confusing. It always serves to enrich our lives, if we let it, and in ways we can rarely anticipate.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Religion and culture are powerful things.” “More powerful than love?” “If you let them be, I think so.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Sometimes pushing the wheels of change into motion is the bulk of the battle.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Learn all you can...about everything you can. You will find that, when you’re as powerless as we are, it helps to be clever.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Against all the odds. You need to hold on to your faith in the good.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“It’s my belief that you have to look past the surface of things to get to the truth of”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“May I suggest, Alcippe,” she says, “that if you wish to take revenge upon this girl’s family, the best way to do so would be by letting her live.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“I don’t understand your people. You take perfectly natural and normal things and write religious laws that state they’re unnatural. Which is absurd.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Power changes everything.

"This is bigger than just us," Yvan says. "If no one steps forward to fight, they'll win."

But could we actually do it? Could we harness our power and help take down the Gardnerians and the Alfsigr and any and all of their allies?”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Please, don't tell me that everything will be all right." He holds up a hand as she starts to speak. "Because nothing is all right. Nothing in this entire world is all right.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Learn all you can, Elloren, about everything you can. You will find that, when you’re as powerless as we are, it helps to be clever.” I slump down in my chair. “It would be better to be powerful and clever.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“significant look. “Sometimes pushing the wheels of change into motion is the bulk of the battle.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“don’t get to choose what we are,” she says finally, her voice low. “But we do get to choose who”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Learn all you can, Elloren, about everything you can. You will find that, when you’re as powerless as we are, it helps to be clever.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Every race—the Fae, the Lupines, the Elves, the Gardnerians, the Amaz—they all have completely different religious beliefs, but the one thing they all have in common is that they all believe their way is the only way, and everyone else is less worthy.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“There is no ethnic purity, Elloren. Only power, and the lack of it.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“TRAPPED”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“The true demons of this world come in many guises...Go find them...And go fight them.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“We don't get to choose what we are...But we do get to choose who we are.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“You never can tell what the future holds, even in times as dark as these.”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“inter vened”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“forcing myself to adjust to a diminished reality,”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower

“Vice Chancellor Quillen’s words echo in my mind as I bow my head against the driving wind and hurry through the torchlit University streets. I pull my cloak taut, no”
― Laurie Forest, The Iron Flower