Kamilah Cole > Quotes

“Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too late to reclaim what you've lost,' she had said. 'Patois is your island's tongue, Elara. It's your heritage. It is the true expression of your heart. Don't give it away.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“War didn't prove one country was stronger than another. It just snuffed out lives from each nation until only mourners were left to make sense of it all.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“That was one of life’s most tragic secrets: War never actually ended. It survived in the lives destroyed by things large and small.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“There is no right. There is no wrong. There is only the endless effort to leave this world a better place than it was the day before.”
― Kamilah Cole, This Ends in Embers

“Faron's heart stopped entirely as she stared at him. Like friends, romance was a sacrifice she'd made to be the Childe Empyrean. It hadn't mattered much to her until now, because Faron had figured out long ago that she didn't feel attraction the way other people did. She had never looked at a random person and wanted them. She had never seen the beauty of others as anything other than an objective observation. She had never pictured herself kissing anyone the way she'd seen her sister kiss Cherry McKay.
But she pictured it now.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“But myths were lies by nature, transforming humans into symbols.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“The rest of the world would make her a footnote in the books written about her sister, if she were ever mentioned at all. And maybe she shouldn't care about that, but she did. Sometimes it felt as if she were drowning so deep in Faron's shadow, no one could hear her screams.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“I like to live my life with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance

“She was so tired of living in a world that forced her to whittle down her edges until she was smooth and palatable, until she was what everyone needed her to be instead of who she was.”
― Kamilah Cole, This Ends in Embers

“You're the Childe Empyrean. If we stack out burdens against each other's, you'll win every time."
"That doesn't mean we're not both carrying them.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“In the meantime, I need you to say here and protect San Irie if anything should happen."
"Um." Faron exchanged a glance with Reeve, who looked similarly mystified. "Your Majesty, I'm seventeen years old.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“Being forced to learn the language of your oppressors is an oppression of the mind. They rewrite your history when you're too young to know what you're giving away, and before you know it, it's too late to reclaim what you've lost,' she had said. 'Patois is your island's tongue, Elara. It's your heritage. It is the true expression of your heart. Don't give it away.”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“You were the only burst of color in the gray. I never knew myself, but I always knew you.”
― Kamilah Cole, This Ends in Embers

“I’ve had the honor of watching you fall in love with me again and again. Now give me the chance to fall in love with you a second time.”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance

“She could see the conflict on his face, could see how badly he wanted to do the right thing. But he still had no idea what the right thing was, and she had grown tired of waiting for him to figure out out.”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance

“..but it wasn't about Hudson Graves, not really—it was about how there were a million men like Hudson Graves everywhere, who took one look at her skin or her gender or her address or her accent, still present in the way she pronounced certain words she'd only ever read, and assumed she was nothing. That she was lazy or angry or sassy or emotional or a problem.”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance

“you speak patios almost like a native. How quickly you adapt to the blood on your hands" -commander warwick”
― Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn

“Isn’t that blasphemous of you?” Elara had asked, amused. “You said Riders are worshipped as saints.”
Reeve had glanced off to the side, out the window, his eyes slightly narrowed. “I never said that was a good thing. Being worshipped.”
― Kamilah Cole, This Ends in Embers

“For them”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance