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The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2) QUOTES

The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2) QUOTES

1 " It wasn’t fair that Jovis should have the love and adoration of the Empire’s people, and I had to fight for even a modicum of respect. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

2 " It’s a fantasy that makes the Sukais sound more noble and intrepid than they actually are. In the end we are all animals, scraping by with what we can. None of us are noble. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

3 " I’m learning to. What’s the point of having power if we can’t use it to help people? The farmers, the gutter orphans – they’re no different than you or me. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

4 " Everything is broken and I don’t know how to put it back together in a way that makes sense. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

5 " A coward is not a man who feels fear. A coward is one who would volunteer others for suffering he would not take on himself. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

6 " had to know my place, he’d said, otherwise others would decide my place for me. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

7 " Old men always think they know better than everyone else, even when the world has long since changed around them. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

8 " How could she condone the deaths of these people just because they were not her people? Happenstance had placed them elsewhere. It was easier to think of people she did not know as less significant, but that didn’t make it right. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

9 " One thing the monks taught me was that history is not a line; it is a spiral. We don’t repeat moments in time, but we come back around, echoing them. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

10 " A song isn’t impenetrable armor. They write songs about dead people too, you know.” “But are they quite so catchy? "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

11 " I was not some pampered, cloistered Emperor’s get. I had clawed my way tooth and nail to this position, defying my father and teaching myself his magic. I was Lin, and I was Emperor. “Riya has an interesting way of greeting guests, Sai,” I said, my voice even. “Honored ones in particular. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

12 " And this was what she hated about politics – the wheedling, the insinuations, the need to always be careful exactly what one was saying lest it be misinterpreted. Why couldn’t everyone just have their cards pinned to their shirts instead of holding them close to their chests? "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

13 " But beneath that you have the strongest, most compassionate heart of anyone I’ve ever known. Any child would be lucky to feel a fraction of the love I know you’re capable of. We’ll figure this out together. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

14 " When you’re young, you think you can change the world. You think you can bend it to your will. When you’re old, you learn to change your small corner of it and live with the rest.”
“So am I old now?”
She gave me a narrow-eyed look. “Older. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

15 " The next prize after that is Hualin Or. Will you be ready to defend us? Is that not your duty as Emperor?” The brightness of her gaze never dimmed; her smile did not fade. No one else spoke. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

16 " Maybe she just doesn’t care,” Mephi said, leaning against my knees.
Thrana piped up eagerly. “A bad? A very bad?”
“More like a strange,” I said.
“A strange,” Thrana cooed.
“No,” Lin broke in. “We don’t say it like that. We say the situation is strange. We don’t just label things as ‘a strange’.” She threw up her hands. “Oh, what does it matter? "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

17 " Too many thoughts competing for space in my head for me to think clearly about anything. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

18 " Ah, Jovis. It’s good to see you again. It’s been too long,” the man sounded sincere; he always sounded sincere. He spread his arms wide. “You refuse my invitations, you never send letters, you rebuff my emissaries…I might think you were avoiding me. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

19 " Because when a man is as powerful as Kaphra, you just accept his version of reality to survive. But I was done making myself less in order to appease people. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

20 " I suppose I am a smuggler at heart. I’ll do what I’ve done so many times before.”
“Which is what?”
“Figure it out as I go along. "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)