E.J. Beaton > Quotes

“She could pretend that it was not grief, that insurmountable pain you were meant to climb over like a few pebbles. She had public, political problems now; the kind of problems that everyone treated as real”
― E.J. Beaton, The Councillor

“Strength without swords."
"How does one conquer without a sword? Without a weapon?"
"The real leader conquers with her mind. Princess Santieri's phrase, was it not?”
― E.J. Beaton, The Councillor

“Control people with a sword, and they resent you. Control them with a song, and they plead for more.”
― E.J. Beaton, The Councillor

“The most dangerous rumors are fashioned out of truth.”
― E.J. Beaton, The Councillor

“There was a difference between want and need. You could not comprehend that difference easily, in the inked phrases of a definition; only when you were in the middle of need yourself, sinking to your knees in its alluvium, searching the horizon for a figure, any figure, to haul you out of the cloying sediment, did you understand what it meant to be without choice. Nobody merely wanted to be pulled free by a firm hand. Nobody merely wanted to be seen.”
― E.J. Beaton, The Councillor