K. Eason > Quotes

“Here is my gift, little princess: that you will always see a path through difficulties, and you will always find the courage to take it.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“The littlest fairy's gift was a lonelier prospect. Courage always is, because it takes us into the unknown.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“You think that old bit about the enemy of my enemy is my friend is true? Bah. Just means you have more enemies.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“Human beings are fascinated with time. They measure it out according to celestial motion and ecclesiastical cycles, parse it into increments that accrete or divide to bracket the experience of living.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“The Reforms had stopped just short of banning castration—allowing, as the law said, a mother to preserve her son’s vocal talent. In practice, it meant that poor women had options besides exposing the infant to the Wild. If the boy had a voice, she could cut him, let him earn coin as a singer. But it was more likely, if the boy survived infancy, that his mother would indenture him to a brothel, or a highborn household. Tsabrak’s mother had chosen that path—had gotten lucky, too, that she’d contracted him to a proconsul. Better money than brothels, if you caught a highborn’s eye.”
― K. Eason, Outlaw

“Better to say sorry than may I.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“Crude carvings, Alviri work. Kenjak felt a small surge of pride that the Dvergiri had never produced something so ugly. Since”
― K. Eason, Enemy

“The dead shouldn’t walk at all.” “What should be and what is are not always related.” “They’re gone. Teslin and Barkett. Just gone.” “No,” said Veiko gently. “They are only dead.” And”
― K. Eason, Enemy

“Taru grunted. “Does every spirit know your name?”
― K. Eason, Outlaw

“Fire wasn’t even supposed to happen in void. There was no phlogiston. Fire didn’t, couldn’t, happen without phlogiston.”
― K. Eason, How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge

“you’re honest. And you’re a good man.” Another frown, and this one stuck. “I am a fool. And now I am an outlaw.” “Same thing, yeah?”
― K. Eason, Enemy

“They were the best at following orders: told to hold the corridor, they would do so or die trying. But they also possessed the same mental acuity and flexibility as a bag of wet mice. Some days, the Princess would need well-armed, violent wet mice. But this was not one of those days.”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“the See-Eee-Oh of Something and”
― K. Eason, How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse

“more waiting overhead.”
― K. Eason, Enemy

“Then he took a closer, more complete look, and understood how she had evaded detection. Rupert had been the Vizier of Thorne when last he had seen her, and that had been twenty years and a lifetime ago on a distant planet, but one does not forget a fairy.”
― K. Eason, How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge