Liz Williams > Quotes

“In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“Stories don't always reflect the world; they make it, too. A book is a world inside the world, and sometimes there are worlds within that.”
― Liz Williams , Worldsoul

“There is an adage about bravery and foolishness being part of the same package.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“all gods were like that: the knife behind the smile, the drop of poison in the honey jar. They liked to bind you to them, make you dance on razorblades.”
― Liz Williams

“There are those who want things made worse, not better, so that they can scavenge on the remnants. Remember what you know already: the human world is filled with predators.”
― Liz Williams, The Shadow Pavilion

“But that was the way of it everywhere: there you were, getting on with things, minding your own business, and suddenly some arsehole decides to start a war.”
― Liz Williams, Precious Dragon

“as though the architect had tried to please everyone via the dubious method of insane and haphazard compromise.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“Four sisters, like the four winds, the four corners of the Earth: all scattered now.”
― Liz Williams, Comet Weather

“had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“The band of sickly scarlet light that passed for sunset in Hell ringed the horizon like a migraine,”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“By keeping the price of treatment drugs artificially high, and making sure that only those who can afford it have the opportunity of a cure, we're actually supporting the work that the Ministry of Epidemics does. I mean, look at Africa and our liaison with the Underworld there.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“It seemed much bigger inside, a Tardis-chapel,”
― Liz Williams, Comet Weather

“Typical of Hell, thought Chen: overdone and ostentatious and overwhelming, designed to cow an already beaten populace.
"Wow" he said. The demon grinned sympathetically.
"It is a bit excessive, isn't it?"
"Who does it belong to?"
"My employer is the First Lord of Banking. Head of the Ministry of Wealth.”
― Liz Williams, Snake Agent

“The whole justification for having such a bureaucratic system in the first place is so that balance is maintained, and so that one institution doesn't benefit at the expense of all others. Imagine the chaos that would ensue on Earth and in Hell if the Ministry of War were perpetually triumphant! Humans would be decimated and half of Hell would be out of a job.”
― Liz Williams