K.A. Riley > Quotes

“Needing help isn’t weakness. Weakness is not helping someone who needs it.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“He pulls me close and kisses me. “For luck?” I ask. He shakes his head. “For love.”
― K.A. Riley, Synthesis

“We see it, believe in it, we’re force-fed it, and we call it the Truth.”
― K.A. Riley, Sacrifice

“You’ll have a million obstacles in your path. Don’t be one of them.”
― K.A. Riley, Terminus

“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.” — Charles Dickens”
― K.A. Riley, Sacrifice

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” — Carl Sagan”
― K.A. Riley, Survival

“Step One: Dress your kid up in pink frilly bullshit. Tell her repeatedly that she needs to be rescued from a life of solitude by a rapey prince who will one day come along, plant a kiss on her lips and ensure that she never needs to lift a finger, read a book or expand her knowledge in any way. Check. Step Two: Grow up. Earn a very moderate education. Just enough to convince yourself that you’re properly liberated from the shackles of the Patriarchy. Check. Step Three: Meet a man who’s not quite Satan, but thinks he’s God. Check. Step Four: Marry him, thereby cementing his legal claim to your body and soul. Check. Step Five: Pop out a kid. Check. Step Six: Make banana bread at least once a week until bananas become contraband, while sporting a highly flammable apron that says, “Kiss the Cook” in big stupid red letters. Check.”
― K.A. Riley, Rise of the Inciters

“Knowledge. That’s the key to freedom.”
― K.A. Riley, Render

“It's never occurred to me before how much my imagination ramps up my fear. But here they are, feeding off each other with total disregard for my sanity.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“All they knew was fear. That’s the power of propaganda.”
― K.A. Riley, Render

“I'm feeling extra affectionate today. Maybe it's the fear of an unknown future that's driving my need for human contact.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“One time a few years back, he told me his philosophy. “Preemptively tell the world that you suck, and they’ll never accuse you of sucking. At the very worst, they’ll pity you for your suckiness, and that’s way better than having them think you’re arrogant.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“We never thought to ask if it was real. Who would we ask, anyway? How could anyone ever really know for sure? Our entire country is based on faith in the government. Not just in the people running it but in the belief that there is a government at all. Democracy isn’t a tangible thing. It’s an idea, and it can be manipulated like any idea, especially when so many people out there, people like us, don’t have the resources, or sometimes even the desire, to challenge it one way or the other.”
― K.A. Riley, Rebellion

“I just wish I could get closer without losing myself.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“becoming more by needing less.”
― K.A. Riley, Cult of the Devoted

“It’s almost as if all the bad exists to make us appreciate the good.”
― K.A. Riley, Awaken

“I can't get my head around Rain's question. Card's my best friend. No, he's more than that. After losing my father and brother, in a lot of ways, Cardyn has been everything to me. He's been with me through so much---even the secret stuff, like my training with Render. What Rain might think were amorous stolen moments between us in the woods in the Valta were actually some of the most special times in my life. Card and I talked about our hopes, our feelings, our fears. We supported each other when we were down and reveled in each other's happiness when things were going great. We had an intimacy then, a bond beyond Rain's limited ideas of what two people can mean to each other. Besides, when did 'just friends' get to be such a bad thing? Cardyn isn't 'just' anything to me. There's no way I'll let someone that close, that special, that indispensable in my life, be demoted to a 'just' anything.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“I think people tend to believe whatever suits the narrative of their lives.” “That’s a bit cynical, isn’t it? You’re basically saying we all wear blinders, even when we know the people in charge might be doing horrible things.” “That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
― K.A. Riley, Awaken

“But at least I'm beginning to feel like an active participant in my own life now, instead of slogging around in the Valta waiting to die.”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“We see what we’ve been conditioned to see with our restricted minds and limited vision.”
― K.A. Riley, Sacrifice

“Preemptively tell the world that you suck”
― K.A. Riley, Recruitment

“To the Survivors. Vengeance will be yours. “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― K. A. Riley, Survival

“if coincidence is just a word someone made up to describe those rare times when we can see the connections that are around us all the time?”
― K.A. Riley, Cult of the Devoted

“They say ignorance is bliss.” “Well, they’re wrong. Ignorance is infuriating.”
― K.A. Riley, Rebellion

“I plop down on my bed and kick off my boots. “I just don’t feel like I know who I am anymore,” I sigh. “Not in a bad way. More like I feel like I’m turning into someone else. Or something else.” Brohn sits down on his bed across from me and gives my knee a little squeeze. “Well, whatever happens in these next few days, whatever or whoever you find yourself turning into, you’ll always be you to me.” “Brohn,” I say, dropping onto my back and staring up at the ceiling, “I think that’s probably the weirdest and nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
― K.A. Riley, Rebellion

“You’re a magical squishy-wishy granddaughter!”
― K. A. Riley, Seeker’s World

“You’ll need more than strength.” Finn looks desperate when he adds”
― K.A. Riley, The Cure Chronicles: The Complete Series

“The promise of a better life is the most powerful weapon people like the Directorate and the Bishop have. They assault us with that promise over and over again, and I’m not sure we ever learn. We trust and we hope, we listen as they bombard us with lies.”
― K.A. Riley, Reign

“It’s one thing to know an injustice is happening, but it’s another thing to be able to do something about it.”
― K.A. Riley, Render

“If they agree to come with us, then, by definition, the cause isn’t hopeless,” Rain says.”
― K.A. Riley, Survival