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Riveted (Iron Seas, #3) QUOTES

Riveted (Iron Seas, #3) QUOTES

1 " When you're surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn't a sin. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

2 " I've never understood it. That is always the first thing someone asks: Where are you from. Not 'What do you like?' or 'What do you believe?' or even 'What is your mother like?' which all have more bearing on the person I am. And if I don't tell them where I'm from, they try to guess.... It drives them mad, as if to know me they need to know where I am from. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

3 " People never believed of others what they couldn't imagine of themselves. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

4 " every man had a choice: feed that which makes you happy, or feed that which makes you rage. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

5 " He wanted her for the rest of his life. And on his dying breath, he would still want another second with her, another hour, another lifetime. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

6 " Yes. My mother, for one. As a child I loved her, despite knowing so little about her. But now, knowing everything she has done, how stubborn she can be, how blind, how strong, how clever…knowing her as a woman, I love her so much more. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)

7 " You completely turned the world about. It is like paddling along in a canoe and suddenly being capsized—except that as soon as the boat upends, you realize that you’d been paddling along upside down and never realized it because you could breathe and see. And until you take a real breath of air, see what everything looks like without the water distorting the view, you believe that the upside-down world is the way things are. But you tipped me over. "

― , Riveted (Iron Seas, #3)