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City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3) QUOTES

City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3) QUOTES

1 " What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

2 " My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it'll be here well after they walk away from it.

My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking perspective. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

3 " What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

4 " But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

5 " If one were to protest all the injustices of life,” says Sigrud, “great and small, one would have no time for living. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

6 " And then he understands: it’s a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

7 " It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing. This makes them beautiful. And this makes them terrible. —DREYLING PROVERB, ORIGIN "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

8 " In my operational days, there were three ways of thinking about things. There were things you knew. Then there were things you knew you didn’t know. And then there were the things you didn’t know that you didn’t know.” “No wonder we keep having so many international crises,” she says, “if you lot are running around talking like that. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

9 " Just once, he thinks, I would like to think of a solution that does not involve me nearly blowing myself up. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

10 " Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves, but for future generations.

But it is worth tending to. Oh, it is so terribly worth tending to. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

11 " One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you.” Taty "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

12 " xxx it feels to me that...that death is but a thunderstorm. Just wind and noise. You can't ask meaning of such a thing. Not even of your own. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

13 " Но ее лицо искажено от печали и скорби, щеки мокры от слез: она создание, пусть и Божественное, но достигшее самых глубин отчаяния.
Это ему знакомо. Он сам выглядел так же, когда потерял своего отца, семью, дочь, подругу.
И в этот момент Сигруд понимает: это петля, бесконечная петля искалеченных детей, которые вырастают, но берегут свою боль, сохраняя ее свежей и новой, причиняя еще больше травм и начиная весь цикл заново. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

14 " He probes at the edges of the world, feeling the distortions. Dilations. Contractions. Dangling tumefactions drifting through reality. Distended veins running through space and time. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

15 " My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of an adult is someone who knows the world was here before they showed up and that it’ll be here well after they walk away from it. My definition of an adult, in other words, is someone who lives their life with a little fucking "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

16 " Once he steps out of the washroom, Ivanya glances out the window at the cabling. "Would it be rude to say that I am now losing faith in this plan?"

"Yes."

"All right. Well then, I will reconcile myself with just thinking it very loudly. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

17 " It's unfair that the dead leave us," she says. "But it's worse that they never really go away. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

18 " It seems sad to live one's life," says Olvos, "defined by the absence of another. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

19 " In Navashtra, in Saypur, a young girl obeys a strange impulse and sings a song to the stones in a nearby quarry. She and the rest of her family, who are picnicking nearby, stare in fear and confusion as the stones slowly roll down the slopes to spell the words: THANK YOU, THAT WAS LOVELY. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)

20 " She stares at him for a long time, hands on her mouth, tears silently running down her cheeks, the sound of birdsong in her ears. Then she sniffs and nods.

"All right," she says. "All right. "

― Robert Jackson Bennett , City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)