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The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1) QUOTES

The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1) QUOTES

1 " Power is power. Those who hold it seldom remember where they came from. "

― Aliette de Bodard , The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)

2 " is almost pleasant, at first, to be Falling. The harsh, unwavering light of the City recedes, leaving you in shadow, leaving only memories of relief, of a blessed coolness seizing your limbs. Nothing has turned yet into longing, into bitterness, into the cold that will never cease, not even in the heat of summer. "

― Aliette de Bodard , The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)

3 " IT is almost pleasant, at first, to be Falling. The harsh, unwavering light of the City recedes, leaving you in shadow, leaving only memories of relief, of a blessed coolness seizing your limbs. Nothing has turned yet into longing, into bitterness, into the cold that will never cease, not even in the heat of summer. "

― Aliette de Bodard , The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)

4 " Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering. "

― Aliette de Bodard , The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)

5 " All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who’d just caught prey— which boded ill for Silverspires. "

― Aliette de Bodard , The House of Shattered Wings (Dominion of the Fallen, #1)