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Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1) QUOTES

Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1) QUOTES

1 " Now, it’s certainly not true for *every* woman, but the ones I have had the good fortune to know in my life have all followed this rule.
If you need a favor, you bring her flowers.
If you need her forgiveness, you bring her jewelry.
And if you need both, you bring her a book. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

2 " Courageous read a lot of books. That’s probably why he was so angry all the time. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

3 " People were noisome, demanding, judgmental. Books gave everything and asked nothing more than to be taken care of. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

4 " No one ever gets the death they want,” I replied. “Just the one they deserve. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

5 " Just because something is religious does not necessarily make it insane.” She studied the writing and hummed. “Though this particular something is decidedly fucking nuts. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

6 " Because justice isn’t for the victim, is it? It’s not for the girl crying every night or the boy burying his father. It’s for the killer, it’s for the judge, it’s for the shits like you who want to feel like you’re above it all, like forgiving a killer makes up for not being able to protect his victims.” I spat on the floor. “A man kills and you fawn over him and wonder what went wrong. A man dies and you shrug and step over the corpse. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

7 " You wear ignorance like a crown as you feast upon a thickheaded fantasy of lies, "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

8 " There are others, but the end result is that most Vagrants showing up where you live will ruin your day. Not me, of course. A girl like me tends to ruin your whole week. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

9 " Now, it's certainly not true for every woman, but the ones I have had the good fortune to know in my life have all followed this rule.
If you need a favor, you bring her flowers.
If you need her forgiveness, you bring her jewelry.
And if you need both, you bring her a book. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

10 " In Liette's case, those words were probably something like, If it were possible to make love to books, I would. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

11 " Books gave everything and asked nothing more than to be taken care of. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

12 " If you're lucky, you meet a lot of people you like enough to touch them. If you're really lucky, you meet a few who you like enough to let them touch you back. But if you're very luck, you meet that one person who touches you in a way that makes you feel like you're standing up a little straighter, like you're breathing a little clearer, like you were walking hunched over your whole life and you didn't even know it. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

13 " The song of lightning followed me, an angry, screeching verse torn from twenty ragged throats. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

14 " But you don’t get to live through as many battles as Courageous had without being a practical man. And a practical man doesn’t have ethics; he has jobs. And somehow, they’ve got to get done. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

15 " Belief doesn’t exist. Or it doesn’t matter. Whichever. There is only what is known and what is unknown, a question and an answer. Belief is something that people use to excuse themselves when they give up finding it. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

16 " People are wounds. They cut and they hurt and they bleed. Some hurt for a little while and go away. Some don’t stop hurting until you make them. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

17 " The loudest sound in the world is a man of faith beginning to doubt. And over it, I couldn’t hear anything else. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

18 " That hadn’t gone well. Not that I had expected it to go better—nothing is ever improved with the addition of tentacles, after all. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

19 " She always preferred paper to people. People were noisome, demanding, judgmental. Books gave everything and asked nothing more than to be taken care of. I found her priorities charming. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)

20 " They call it an art and dress it up with fancy words and complex theories, but magic is as simple as love. It is just a price and a person willing to pay it. "

― Sam Sykes , Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1)