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Green (Green Universe #1) QUOTES

Green (Green Universe #1) QUOTES

1 " A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)

2 " We each pace against the bars that cage us."

"Your cage is the world," I said in frustration, though I did not mean to strike for his heart.

"Everyone's cage is the world. Some worlds are smaller than others. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)

3 " People's lives and deaths are written in polite notes that must be passed among the powerful like dance cards. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)

4 " Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)

5 " Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)

6 " We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace. "

― Jay Lake , Green (Green Universe #1)