Tea Set and Match Quotes

“I have been poor, and I have been friendless, but never with opportunities barred to me like they are for her, never threatened for how I was born the way she is. I can empathize with her fear, and I can understand it intellectually, but I cannot feel what it is to live with it every day.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Then can you explain why people are like this?” Ari asks me. “Why do they have to operate on a set of rules no one says out loud?”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Are you responsible for the world?” Sa Nikuran asks. “I’m responsible for my role in changing it,” I say.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“That’s how the world is,” Ari says. “Most people can’t do anything, and the ones who could, won’t.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“You’re reflecting carefully, making choices, and taking action. Ultimately that’s all any of us can do.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Oh, well, no pressure,” Lorwyn mutters. “I should definitely be responsible for another person’s happiness.” “You’re not,” Risteri says. “You’re what makes happiness seem possible for him. Actually being happy is up to him, not you. But your happiness is also up to you.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“she has treated me backward, starting with the model of strength she knows and putting me into it, rather than seeing me and drawing my strength out.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“I should definitely be responsible for another person’s happiness.” “You’re not,” Risteri says. “You’re what makes happiness seem possible for him. Actually being happy is up to him, not you.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Helping in the cat sense,” he confirms. “Interfering with maximum adorableness.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“I’m glad he can relax enough to make art with me here, that my presence doesn’t keep him from himself.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“being a focal point is what I use to solve problems as much as my weaponized etiquette.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Perhaps doing the work, and dedicating myself to continuing to do the work no matter what, is the path.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Don’t discount it as a tactic. There’s a real art to threatening.”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match

“Is forward the only direction that matters?” she asks. “Is sustenance so inconsequential?”
― Casey Blair, Tea Set and Match