The Bone Shard Daughter Quotes

“I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Fanatics were all alike, cut from the same cloth and dyed different colors.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“And that was the worst thing about this grief – not just knowing that she was gone, but knowing that eventually new memories and experiences would layer on top of them, making the distance between us ever wider.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“A person who can’t see a future doesn’t have a future”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“When a shark offers up a pearl, be wary of its teeth. My father liked to tell me that when we were sailing, though I found this lesson most often applied on land.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I didn’t live in a palace. I lived in a dollhouse of my father’s making, a living graveyard. Despite the fact that Ilith’s lair was the size of the dining hall, I felt I was being crushed by the weight of the surrounding stone. If he knew, why let me continue? Was this all some sort of test? And if the sickness hadn’t come from Bayan, where had I gotten it from?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“When I was in the water," Mephi said, "I didn't know where to go. I had to find someone to help me. I swam to you because I knew you would help me. I know who you are...You are the person who helps”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“One foolish choice is like a rat you let go. It will spawn more consequences than you first thought possible.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I am hardened by the suffering of others. Another lie I told myself because I couldn't save everyone.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“And that was the worst thing about this grief – not just knowing that she was gone, but knowing that eventually new memories and experiences would layer on top of them, making the distance between us ever wider. The days we’d spent swimming and fishing at the beach, the first time I’d kissed her, the dreams we’d shared – I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Knowledge can only be wielded by those who dive into its depths and know the shape of it. Reading without true understanding is only wading in the shallows without a care for the monsters that lurk beneath.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Dragging myself from bed seemed easier when I was doing it for someone else.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“But guilt was there to remind me of when I misstepped. The only thing I could do now was to make amends.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I’ve given them that land, and they need to repay me somehow. It’s a fair bargain. The trees don’t take up all of the land, and they can grow crops on the rest. I didn’t force them to it; they took the bargain of their own volition. Any failure is laziness on their parts.” He shook his head and took another drink. “You sound like one of the Shardless. Save your pity for the unfortunate without choices.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“One more life saved. It was a pittance, unutterably small against the scale of the lives lost. But it was there. And one life certainly made a difference to the one living it.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I’d told Emahla once that I would fight a thousand armies just to be at her side. She’d laughed and had kissed my cheek. “Jovis, you’re not a fighter.”
“I would be for you.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Only fools believe everything they hear.”
“And only fools discount everything they hear.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“If a man could die of stress, I’d have died several hundred times over in the past few days.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“knowing that eventually new memories and experiences would layer on top of them, making the distance between us ever wider.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I was Lin. I was the Emperor’s daughter. And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“The lie I told you… it’s something my father would have done.” I shook my head as though I could shake myself free of the guilt. But guilt was there to remind me of when I misstepped.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Children understood life and death, though adults liked to think they didn’t.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“No one, it seemed, was too small to turn the tide.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“It’s hard to remake one’s view of the world, to admit to complacency. I thought remaking myself for you was hard enough, but doing that was something I wanted. I didn’t want to realize how much I’ve hurt the people around me, and that’s what confronting my beliefs meant. We all tell ourselves stories of who we are, and in my mind, I was always the hero. But I wasn’t. Not in all the ways I should have been. Can you forgive me?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“this must be why he guarded the secrets to his magic so zealously. If I were smart enough, if I were clever enough, if I were careful enough, I could rewrite the commands embedded into their shards. I could make them mine. Father didn’t think I was enough. My memory was lacking. But I knew who I was now. I was Lin. I was the Emperor’s daughter. And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“My father ruled his Empire by proxy, all his power and commands distributed to his four most complex constructs: Ilith, Construct of Spies; Uphilia, Construct of Trade; Mauga, Construct of Bureaucracy; and Tirang, Construct of War.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I knew who I was. I was Lin. I was the Emperor’s daughter.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Father told me I'm broken.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter