T.C. Marti > Quotes

“Far cry from the overbearing people who thought they had a right to invade every sector of your life whenever you stumbled into their classroom after staying up half the night worried sick about where your father was,” Kaija said, her vendetta against the government school system evaporating when Professor Kotkaniemi entered and cleared her throat.”
― T.C. Marti, Cursed Mage

“Not in my eyes, you aren’t. You’re as human as I am. Even if society doesn’t want to admit it because they’ve been trained to label people. You know what I think? This divisiveness would end in about two seconds if elitists like my family stopped telling their subjects to see people in a certain light.” - Prince Caer Cymraeg”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“And what good would that do? Adding a layer of hate toward your oppressors by punishing them? That’s how totalitarian regimes replace each other in the first place.”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“Not in my eyes, you aren’t. You’re as human as I am. Even if society doesn’t want to admit it because they’ve been trained to label people. You know what I think? This divisiveness would end in about two seconds if elitists like my family stopped telling their subjects to see people in a certain light.”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“There are more things between the Living World and the Cosmic World than any mortal man or woman can dream of unless they possess the Third Sight.”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“Well, it sounded like an interesting time. I’d ask you the same thing, but I’m guessing you’re looking to strengthen your connection with a chosen pantheon of gods and goddesses, right? Call me out if I’m jumping to another conclusion.”

Kaija rolled her eyes. “Sats, why do you keep doing this?”

“What?”

“Apologizing for jumping to conclusions and stuff. You’ve been doing it all week.”

“Well, you should have seen my first writing assignment. It’s really freaking me out and making me overthink things.”

“What was it?”

“The prompt was, ‘When Did I Realize I Was a Prematurely Judgmental Person?’ It was an over-the-summer writing assignment for one of my classes, and the research I did for the paper was, well, eye-opening.”

“Okay, well just because you read one point-of-view that search engines probably promote while suppressing other viewpoints and you wrote about the subject, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re prematurely judging people. Trust me, if I feel you’re assuming too much about something, I’ll let you know, okay?”

“Sorry,” she mumbled, averting her gaze.

“Sats!”

“Okay, okay. Come on, let’s pick up the pace.”
― T.C. Marti, Cursed Mage

“What’s it have to do? Renè, who originally fought the House of Magnu? Our ancestors! Who were the first people conquered? Our ancestors! Why would Trinity appoint such a violent lineage of human beings to kill people or in a best-case situation, let them live like this?” She flashed her X’d hands.

“Because of the crimes we committed against the Native Tamurians all those years ago.”

Mali pointed to herself. “We didn’t commit those crimes. Our ancestors did. For some odd reason, no one here seems to understand that.”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire

“Conspiracy theories are only theories until they are proven to be fact. And most are, because all you need to do, Mali, is to follow the money, the influence that the money brings, and the power that money and influence grants.” - Prince Caer Cymraeg”
― T.C. Marti, Spirit and Fire