Some Desperate Glory Quotes

“What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“A peace brought about with the threat of violence is only a war in waiting.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“While we live, we’re alive,” Kyr said. “And that’s all.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

We are what's left.
We are what must survive.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“Kyr had nowhere, really, to go. Cadet barracks were for sleeping; no one wasted time in the arcade but weaklings and traitors-in-waiting; and despite everything Kyr had always been taught and everything she knew she owed to her species—as a survivor, as a woman—she always got bored and uncomfortable in Nursery, the one wing that never turned female volunteers away.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“Jole put his hand on her shoulder, making her startle and look up at him. “I’m proud of you, Kyr,” he said. “I don’t say that enough. Go find your mess and relax. It’s your rec rotation.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“Proving you were capable of saving the world didn’t mean you could, or that anyone would let you.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“Her body, which had run Doomsday hundreds, maybe thousands of times, knew the steps like a dance.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

“There was something wrong with Gaea Station. There had always been something wrong with Gaea Station.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory