Mab Morris > Quotes

“What you came to find. Would it have mattered as much to anyone else?”

“No, it wouldn’t. It means something only to me.…”

“Nothing is ever so silent.”
― Mab Morris, The Red Khémèresh

“The land was broken, just as this Book was broken…. Everyone lived… with this brokenness, but did not see it.”
― Mab Morris, The Red Khémèresh

“And if you forget that you are human, even during moments of divinity, then you become profane. Would you have someone be guilty of merely being man?”
― Mab Morris, The Red Khémèresh

“Was any battle over if the memories writhed, alive and tangible, inside her? When and how could peace come? Revenge? Death? Or was there something else?”
― Mab Morris, Fate of the Red Queen

“The trick is loving one’s true self, despite overwhelming opposition, even one’s own false self.”
― Mab Morris, Fate of the Red Queen

“You will burn. Grief will rain on your soul night and day. You will want to go to her, to find her. You must remember her and live.”
― Mab Morris, The Bone Reader

“There was no one to tell her what to do next.”
― Mab Morris, Fate of the Red Queen

“The boundaries of her prior life were gone. Here now was an incredible vastness of jungle. She was alone among sounds that were alien.”
― Mab Morris, Fate of the Red Queen

“Assumptions defeat intuition.”
― Mab Morris, The Bone Reader

“Was I a god once, an archetype of gods in countries you’ve never seen…? Or just a man? Does it matter?”
― Mab Morris, Fate of the Red Queen

“To put it a different way, be sanguine with those humors that feel so out of place. You must accept that your feelings are natural and just. In accepting your anger, you will be sanguine.”
― Mab Morris, The Bone Reader