Woven in Moonlight Quotes

“Catalina says that people are like books. Some you want to read and enjoy; some you hate before you've even read a word.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Everything always seems sweeter in the minutes before darkness descends.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Because words empowered by justice can never be silenced”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Dressed in his usual black ensemble, he reminds me of the perfect night. The kind of night that makes you want to get lost somewhere. The kind of night that invites adventure and misbehaving.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Despite the danger, my protest had burst from my lips, from my heart. Because words empowered by justice can never be silenced.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I didn't create the system- I was born into it”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I want to be heard too. Sometimes, when my temper gets the best of me, I'm secretly pleased.That's the real me breaking through the mask.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I'm only a copy of someone else. Just a decoy. I'm not really her. I'm not me. I don't know who I am or where I belong, if anywhere at all.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Why is it so hard to believe that even enemies may want the same things?”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“We float between worlds, between two sides of a war, and the promises we've made to others. Everything fades away.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“We all want the same things: opportunities and means for everyone to earn their bread; freedom of self-expression without consequences; for all children, not just”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Catalina says that people are like books. Some you want to read and enjoy; some you hate before you’ve even read a word.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I didn't create the system- I was born into it," I say at last. It feels like a fair thing to say.

His face seems to be at war. A flash of anger, a sharp narrowing of his gaze, then a slight pull of his eyebrows- exasperation maybe, but smoothed away to make room for a clenched jaw. "Please stop talking before I do something I regret. Por favor."

"What did I say that was so terrible?" My hands fly to my hips. "If you don't explain it to me, how am i supposed to know-"

"I'm a little tired of explaining myself," Rumi says flatly. "Have been for years. And you all never listen. Do your own reading on the subject, why don't you? And then come back and we'll discuss whatever you like.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Catalina says that people are like books. Some you want to read and enjoy; some you hate before you've read a word.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“It's strange I don't fit into the box you made for me?"
The smallest of smiles. "Everyone makes boxes. It's human, I think. You made one for Llacsans.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I didn't create the system - I was born into it.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Catalina says that people are like books. Some you want to read and enjoy; some you hate before you’ve even read a word. Rumi has become a book I want to read.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“He claims to want to help Llacsans and the Lowlanders, his people, then he plans for a road to cut through their territory, destroying homes and wildlife, all to easily export the koka drug to neighboring countries. Gratification, wealth, and notoriety are his real gods, and his greed invites dangerous criminals from powerful countries into Inkasisa who worship at the same altar.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I don’t care un pepino what these people think about me.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“I didn’t personally mistreat the Llacsans. It’s not like I’d been cruel to my nanny. I cared for her. I gave some of my money to the homeless Llacsans I saw in La Ciudad—and that was after the revolt. After my parents died”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight

“Catalina never had the same education in survival. She was whisked away from the horror and kept safe and fed, adored child that she was. She never had to fight for a loaf of bread. Perhaps we’d done her a disservice by keeping her so sheltered? If we hadn’t, she’d have at least learned how to be strong.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Woven in Moonlight