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The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3) QUOTES

The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3) QUOTES

1 " Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

2 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

3 " They’re good, these stories,” Mace continued, his cheeks stained with light color. “They teach the pain of others.” “Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

4 " Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

5 " as always, the story was the compelling thing, worth all of its suffering to find out the ending "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

6 " Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

7 " I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

8 " Our species is capable of altruism, certainly, but it is not a game we play willingly, let alone well. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

9 " Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine? "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

10 " Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

11 " This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to anything they want, anything they can grab. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

12 " The mistake of utopia is to assume that all will be perfect. Perfection may be the definition, but we are human, and even into uopia we bring our own pain, error, jealousy, grief. We cannot relinquish out faults, even in the hope of Paradise, so to plan a new society without taking human nature into account is to doom that society to failure. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

13 " These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value. —The Glynn Queen’s Words, "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

14 " Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

15 " Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus, "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

16 " I put my trust in fiction "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

17 " The Tearling... I told them not to name things after me. - William Tear "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

18 " There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

19 " You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)

20 " Lady, if you don’t wake up, I’m going to have you baptized. "

― Erika Johansen , The Fate of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #3)