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Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1) QUOTES

Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1) QUOTES

1 " She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter? "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

2 " Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

3 " Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

4 " So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

5 " But nobody calls a white man that."
"No one pokes the biggest, dumbest gull in the herd, but no one follows him, either. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

6 " Because I do what I want. I might like wearing a dress, but I don't wear it for them. It's for me. Because I like the feel of it. And I'll not have them taking anything from me that I'm not willing to give "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

7 " So like a man, to think there's safety among yet more men "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

8 " There's not shame in being what you are... I'm the only one who gets to say what I am "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

9 " Sunset, at least, took its time, nice and lazy. She liked the colors of it, and the way that no one could own the sun. It couldn't be compelled, couldn't be roped. You could yell at it all day long, threaten and plead and cuss, and the sun would not budge a goddamn inch. It was what it was, and it took its damn time about it "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

10 " The world was not a place of black and white, night and day. It was shades of gray and shadows, dusk and dawn, in-between moments and shifting sands. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

11 " Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

12 " A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

13 " People need to be touched and talked to, they need to know somebody else in the world cares. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

14 " Whatever is born is something new, something unique. Nothing is pure. Everything is a half-breed. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

15 " Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To that things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

16 " Don't blame what's been a creature's legs. Blame what's in its heart "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

17 " You're human, all human, tempered with long suffering and brief mortality like a blade forged in fire and ice "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

18 " You don't seem bad... But I reckon most bad things don't think they're bad "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

19 " If a man values something, he'd best leave his mark on it." Nettie thought of the scars on her back and down her arms and legs. For something she'd been long told had no value, she carried a lot of brands "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)

20 " Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything. "

― , Wake of Vultures (The Shadow, #1)