Cat Rambo > Quotes

“Every city has its own customs, and Tabat is no different. They grow from and are shaped by the circumstances around them, the history and the geography and what is plentiful or scarce, which exert a much greater influence than any individual ever will, even the Duke.”
― Cat Rambo, Beasts of Tabat

“...when she left stepped off her stage, she left in a scintillating dazzle, like a fairy queen stepping off her throne.
All that shine. And at home?
She was a grubby hoarder.”
― Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter

“I scoffed. "You're acting like all of this is real."
He just looked at me, scorn twisting his lips. 
We both knew that it was real.”
― Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter

“no one plays poker like a conjurer's kid”
― Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter

“Art is something that expands our concept of the known”
― Cat Rambo

“Next to him stands a Water Human wearing one of the elaborate canvas suits held up with a clockwork frame that allows him, or her, to survive in the open air. The machine is like a tank with legs. Plates of glass affixed in the sides allow glimpses of the Human inside, colored blue and scarlet like a singing bird, with stripes of turquoise, black, and mottled gold, a profusion of fins and frills like drowned fans. Not for the first time, I wonder how one water-based race has managed to define itself as Human while all the rest are considered Beasts. That must have taken some fine-grained negotiation.”
― Cat Rambo, Beasts of Tabat

“You can seize the glitter, but your hands have to be open, not holding onto things. Reaching forward.

Carpe glitter, my grandmother used to say. And that was what I meant to do.”
― Cat Rambo, Carpe Glitter