Bright of the Sky Quotes

“3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“Every man wishes to be king." Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“He had always thought that death was black nothingness, but he had not counted on being awake for it.”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.”
― Kay Kenyon, A Thousand Perfect Things

“She shrugged. "Ownership is a fragile concept.”
― Kay Kenyon, City Without End

“He didn't know which he preferred: the Red, with its fatalistic and pious acceptance of all futures, or the Misery, acknowledging that the more you attracted notice, the worse God dealt with you.”
― Kay Kenyon, City Without End

“The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.”
― Kay Kenyon, City Without End

“May the dragon you find be well fed.”
― Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky

“Like a lot of people, she thought love solved everything: just smear it over the problem, and it'll all work out. Then they had the arrogance to pity you if you saw things more rationally.”
― Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky