Fevered Star Quotes

“We are but fevered stars," he intoned, like an orator on a stage. "Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Within even the smallest act of love lives the potential for a miracle.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“The Odo Sedoh dreamed, and in his dreams, he was legion. He was black-winged murder flying over a vast sea. He was the bloodthirsty havoc of beak and talon. He was the stately flock that wheeled over a city stained by injustice. He became the shout of a thousand prayers on a thousand lips. He became a prophecy of revenge. He became the blossoming shadow that engulfed a sun. He was Crow who then became the slaughter.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Only a fool builds her home on a turtle’s back and complains when it swims away.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing.
—Exhortations for a Happy Life”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not.
—From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a spearmaiden”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“And good intentions make no difference to the dead.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“There is no question that the stars cannot answer save the one that goes unasked.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“We are but fevered stars,” he intoned, like an orator on a stage. “Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Don’t sink your ship just to prove you can swim.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“A conflict between enemies may lose the battle, but a conflict between allies risks losing the war.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Now I am a person with an enviable skill set and an exciting amount of indifference.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Don’t sink your ship just to prove you can swim. —Teek saying”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“And one more thing."
"I am feeling disinclined towards favors at the moment.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“I lived my whole life with the sun and took it for granted,”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“There is a saying they teach us in the cradle. ‘The sea has no mercy, even for a Teek.’ You learn it then, and you remember it the first time a drag tide catches you and throws you up miles out to sea. A healthy fear is nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Why hadn’t she thought of it? How had she not put the puzzle pieces together? All the elements right in front of her, but she had been taught not to see them.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Understand your enemy not by the face that they show you but by the face they do not.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“Sedaysa was still beautiful, but now Naranpa noticed the lines at her mouth, the brittleness of her silver hair, a dull patch of skin on her neck. The woman was dying already. Like the flowers.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star