Diamond & Dawn Quotes

“If you wish to be the sun, you will rise in glory. If you wish to be the moon, you will set in perfect darkness and stars will shine in your eyes. Because I will always be the man - or the monster - who falls from the sky at the sight of you.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“But you can choose to let your fear ride you until you're so weak you loathe yourself. Or you can choose to turn it into a weapon.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“My heart thawed, bathed in his certainty. He was so sure. Sure of his world. Sure of his place in it. Sure of what made people good, and willing to stand behind that. And I-I envied him for it. I hadn't been so certain of anything since the moment I spilled my own kinsblood with a shard of glass and stole an empire I didn't deserve.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“It's just walls and marble and tile," I said, a little helplessly. "Those may be the building materials of a house, but they aren't the things homes are made of.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“I'd once felt the same way. But that belief had cost me too much. And in the aftermath of the pain, violence, and chaos my entitled actions had caused, I'd finally begun to realize - no one was born deserving anything. I hadn't been born deserving anything. Not a place to belong, not the love of a people, and certainly not a throne. Those were all things that had to be earned.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“You can burn paper, but you can't destroy ideas.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn

“I loved that house--it had huge glass doors that opened to a broad lawn sweeping down to the sea. We had a little private cove with hundreds of caves cutting through the red rock, and I used to spend hours splashing through them, finding the faces of my Gorma ancestors carved into the walls.”
― Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn