A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery Quotes

“Truth does not sway men's minds unless it first serves their ambitions.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“Forgiveness missed the point. Once you’d forgiven yourself the first time, once you’d given yourself permission, what was to stop you from doing it again? If there was any truth at all in the business of bloodletting, it was that the bloodstains must remain. They might not show on the outside, but they were always right there, under the skin, a reminder of the cost of power.”
― curtis craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“Real power comes from the mind. When someone wants to keep you powerless, the first thing they do is try to control what is permissible for you to think. They write your story for you without your consent and tell you this is how you must believe until even your own thoughts seem like alien things in your head. They hem you in so there is no escape or relief, until in desperation you step off the page, out of the story, into a place their narrative cannot find you. Then you can see the world as it really is.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“Joy doesn’t negate sorrow, but shows it at its proper scale.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“If you ever want a good day, find someone who really needs help and give it to them.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“He was one of the very few people Isabelle had ever met who could make the word honor sound like something to be aspired to rather than as a synonym for “willful pride” or “indefensible privilege.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“if justice doesn’t work for the weak then it doesn’t work for anybody, and we are nothing more than barbarians with shinier buttons.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“Several times they passed insets where some very wealthy family had carved out crypts with one or more graven stone sarcophagi lined up within, as if extravagant grief were somehow superior to the ordinary kind.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“Dead men might tell fewer tales than living ones, but they had at least forgotten how to lie.”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery

“If you ever want a good day, find someone who really needs help and give it to them”
― Curtis Craddock, A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery