The Iron Will of Genie Lo Quotes

“People like you have the luxury of failing more than once. The world will pick you up, dust you off, and send you on your way, nothing lost and nothing gained. You get to keep going, and going, until you get the result you want. And if you do decide to give up, there's a nice cushion for you to land on. That's why you have mottoes like 'fail fast,' and 'failure is the best teacher.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“Why do you always have to be the one making the sacrifice?” “Because that’s what stepping up and taking charge truly means,” Guanyin said gently. “This is the only lesson I ever needed to teach you. You can’t win every battle, no matter how powerful or clever or perfect you are.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“Traveling to another plane of existence tasted like cyan. It smelled like a stubbed toe. I detected notes of lighthouse, iambic pentameter, and general relativity.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“People like me don't get to fail. Not ever. When people like me fail, we don't bounce off a soft surface. We hit the ground hard. We lose so very much. We don't survive long enough to learn anything.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“No one noticed the bat demon hanging from the ceiling, also wrapped in concealment. It was licking a croissant.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“Dunking on people we both hated, together. The truest sign of coupledom there ever was.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“Now you know what we humans feel like. We're afraid. We're vulnerable. We have no control over when death comes for us. Life isn't some grand adventuring quest where each setback is really a leap forward to victory. Sometimes you get set back into the dirt six feet deep, and there you stay.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“The entitlement on this one was as thick as the Earth's mantle.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“When you constantly hear that you can’t do something, or that your goal is out of reach, that it’s wrong for you to have ambitions, and you hear that message over and over again . . . you start to believe it yourself. That’s why I blew up at you earlier. I couldn’t reconcile the truth of what you were saying with the lies I’d accepted for so long.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“If I had been hit on more in my life maybe I would have softened the rejection. Or maybe not, because why the hell did I need to?”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

“We looked like the pictures of ourselves in my children’s book. The Monkey King and the Ruyi Jingu Bang, leading a holy figure atop a dragon horse.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo