Shadebound Quotes

“It was as though they were children with no grasp of the real consequences of failure.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“She had to think like the dragon. Unity of purpose. She half remembered something about that in the Owl’s endless books.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“It was exactly what Harmony had taught her, to hold herself up and never let others tear her down. It was just strange to hear she had taken the lesson to heart instead of merely nodding along with whatever her supposed mentor said.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Her interest was in the future, what was coming next, what would happen next, how she could intercept danger before it struck. She never thought on the past, and how things had come to be how they were. He supposed that between the two of them, they almost managed wisdom. Almost.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Bones that weren’t hers, had been pushed inside her flesh, stretching her out of shape. Twisting her into this new Orsina. This girl who’d do anything to graduate from some school she’d never heard of. To make herself powerful, so that somebody might give her shelter from the world. She didn’t want that. She’d never wanted any of that. These were the wants of the Prima and Harmony. They were in her head, speaking in her voice. Telling her how she should live. Who she should strive to become. She needed to think. She needed to get her brain back under control. She was spiraling. She was losing herself.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“relaxed by the sounds of other living people about her. The desolate silence of her own well-insulated chamber had been too alien to a girl more accustomed to being trod on in the night, the silence stretching out and leaving vacuous openings for her thoughts and fears to dwell in.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Nobles who had never been denied anything in their lives now found the lack of access to this curious new creature in their midst to be a great frustration”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Drive, my dear. Ambition. The desire to succeed and the will to pursue it. It is my hope that you are ready and willing to put in the work required to make something of yourself.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Artemio had no romance in his head. He had no room for it there since he was using the massive amount of space it apparently occupied for things like thinking.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“In his experience, the commoners’ allegiance went to whoever kept food in their belly, kept a roof over their head, and whipped them the least. When it came to the noble houses, loyalty was bought for a marginally higher price, but it was still bought.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Civility was a mask, but it was armor too. So long as he maintained appearances, his enemies could not work against him openly either.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound

“Frightened fools love their fire.”
― G.D. Penman, Shadebound