The Expert System's Brother Quotes

“It is a great poison, to know you have a destiny and that everything you do is right by default.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“A little kindness, that was all it took to make me his; kindness,”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“We’re the real people, Handry, now all that ghost-taint is stripped from us. Don’t think of yourself as broken or wrong. You’re how a man is supposed to be.” I felt something inside me, swelling until it hurt, as though I was Sethr with his bloated stomach. It was my heart, though. It was my pride. Here was this man, so impossibly healthy for an outcast, so in control of his own journey, telling me I was special. He was saying the things that marked me out, made me better, not just a reject abandoned to die.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“the night sky is full of places we might go, if we can only change ourselves enough to live there.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“That optimism that someone else will come and mend all ills, that your Ma or the Lawgiver or someone will just turn up, and everything will be well, that’s the essence of being a kid.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“am ashamed of who I was that night, more so because I became a man who has always been within this body but held back by the regard of others. When we surround ourselves with people who call evil good, how quickly we accept their definitions and speak them back, round and round until every way we experience the world is tainted by it.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“We’ve not been made less, we’ve been restored. We are finally how we’re meant to be.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“Better a thief than a corpse, yes, but better a thief than a beggar as well. The world finds it harder to say no to a thief.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“Outcasts were just like dangerous animals, except they looked like people and that made them horrible.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“People die, boy. That’s what happens to people. They die everywhere, and nobody died near here in a long, long time. The ghosts don’t want us here because they know we would not accept their chains if we knew the truth about ourselves and where we came from. But you’ll see, both of you. You’ll see the House of our Ancestors, and you’ll know the greatness you were born to inherit.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother

“When you’re starving, that starvation sets up a big camp right there at the front of your mind and won’t let you forget. It’s not some pastime you can put down and take up again later when you’re at liberty to do so. It’s your life until it kills you.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System's Brother