Hannah Kaner > Quotes

“The people with the sharpest edges sometimes hid the deepest wounds”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Funerals are for the living," said Kissen as she noticed Inara looking. "The dead don't mind what the world does to them.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“What happened to us does not define us, next is what matters.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“You are worth more than you think. You are still alive; make something of it. Of life, not death.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“People make gods, and, for better or worse, gods make people.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Fate was a fairy story and a bullshit one at that; fate could get fucked and go bother someone else.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Why do you get to give up? Why do you get to decide what your life is worth?”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Let him die. I'm sure he lets other people die for him all the time. Let him have a try.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“It was harder to unmake a god than begin one.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“It is all right. Memories can hurt you. It’s all right to be hurt. You’re safe.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Ask a god's business and become a god's business.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Gods are not always the enemy; even your godkiller knows that. People make gods, and for better or worse, gods make people.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Names have power, and gods felt the tug of theirs like a hook in their gills, pulling them into the open.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Even big gods are not so bright. Even small lives are worth something.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“I am a god of people. Of little lies, little hopes, little stories. Middren has not been kind to me, but its people have. A godkiller has helped me, a child has saved me, a knight has cared for me”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“People like me don't change the world. We just survive it.”
― Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer

“It’s all pretend, power. It’s make-believe and storytelling. Some people just made better stories.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“If no one fights in your corner, then you learn to fight for yourself. (p. 203)”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“It is your body, my love; it is your choice.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“But there was another shrine at the back of the room, where the throne had once been. There, the dais had been lowered, and there was no throne, no deer, no rays of sun. There were still some who worshipped Arren the Sunbringer, Fireheart, but Lessa was determined he be remembered as only a king, stacker of Lesscia and Blenraden, burner of his people, not the winner of their war.
For he had not won it.
In the space where his throne had been, a small but grand shrine had been raised. Its walls were panelled in etched brass, showing green leaves, patterns and feathers, and its totem was white marble, beautifully carved: a hare with a stag’s horns and a bird’s wings.
His eyes had been set with amber, his fur detailed so meticulously it looked as if he might spring up and move at any moment. Offerings had already been draped on his antlers, pooled in the bowls before him. Libations, incense, sweets and wine.
Inara’s offerings were different. They were written notes on long thick pages. Inked stories of what he had been, what they had done together. She had one tucked in her pocket, ready to read aloud. His history, and hers.
It was a greater shrine than he had ever dreamed, etched at its base with his name:

Skediceth. God of hope and telling tales.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“That’s why people need white lies, isn’t it? To protect them from a truth that causes pain.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“Nothing was more frightening than a smart woman with a vendetta and a plan.”
― Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer

“And “prosthesis” is not a dirty word.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“People you trust can turn on you if it pleases them. (p. 161)”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“I don’t want to lose you.”

“Gods are never lost if there is someone who still believes in them.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“Everyone dies!’ she yelled. ‘People and gods, lions and sheep. Storms pass, winds howl, the sun sets, and the night grows dark. We all go to dust and nothing. Everybody dies.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“I can rid you of it, you know,' said Ennerast, leaning forward over the blade, pressing her face close to Kissen's. 'This promise, the scars, the memory.' She brushed Kissen's cheek.

'More powerful gods than you have made me offers, Ennerast,' said Kissen, 'and I killed them just the same.”
― Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“I have frailty in me, and cruelty too. I live in pain because pain is what the world gave me, and I am powerful with it.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker

“Many will not reach out a hand unless you put a coin in it first. Like people, like gods.”
― Hannah Kaner, Faithbreaker