Virginia Mary > Quotes

“Life would be easy if everything was black and white, but it isn’t. It would be easy if there was one side to every story, but there isn’t. There’s rarely even two.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“The world is meant for so much more than just surviving. I want to travel, to love, and to learn. I don’t want to just get by. I want to thrive.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“We all get lost sometimes, but if you know where you want to end up, you will find your way.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“Men often like to pretend their weaknesses don't exist, as if they are gods. But who would want to be a god? I would rather be a shag lion in a field, with no worry but my next meal, than to an all-knowing being with the weight of the sun and the stars on my shoulders.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“I stared at the bodies of the young men whose lives I took. I wondered what they were like and if they had partners waiting at home for them. Maybe if we grew up on the same side of Suhai we could have been friends.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“The truth is always revealed, even if it is just in the shadows.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Laago is as free as the wind that blows through your hair.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“My brother was a shell of his former self, his heart deeply scarred from everything we had endured.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“There were little better feelings than when you finally feel the sun's rays melt against your face after a numbing winter.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“What we do for love...”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“Watch the water as it flows. Even when something attempts to block its path, the water still finds a way around- smoothly, devoid of thought or hesitation. When you leave here, many men will try to stand in your way. It is up to you to move like water, free and without hesitation.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“If I sent my soldiers into Suhai it would be an invasion. It would look just as it does when General Ahkpi’s militia storms our walls. Thousands would die, another meaningless war that history would blame on greed. If Emperor Nahkon is overthrown, it must be by the people.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“You've never really spoken about your father."
"Because he never really was one.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“I don't need a fancy title to do what is right. And title or not, I am a young woman in an old man's world. The only way I'll ever gain respect is if I take it, something none of you here would understand.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“A golden eagle does not need a crown to rule the sky.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The moon can't take away all the darkness, but she can shine her beautiful light.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“It is time for you to stop searching elsewhere for light and to create it within yourselves.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“Even a tree has roots, but that cannot keep it's acorns from being swept away by strong winds. If all acorns fell in the same spot, a forest could never grow.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Only a soul unburdened by the weight of mortality would stand before death without fear nor worry.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“To you, it may seem like an endless maze of paths, but to us, we are traveling through the veins of Earth. She will keep those who are pure at heart safe, while those who are filled with evil will disappear.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“When men unite their minds, they can forge wonders of beauty. However, more often than not, they opt for destruction over creation.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Desolation

“...us lazing around and indulging in gluttony while we chide those who do the same in ignorance was the deepest level of hypocrisy.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Sometimes it feels as though I have spent more time reading than living.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Since when does law equate to morality?”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The desire for gold trumps the honor of many.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“As long as there is a night full of stars, we will never lose our way.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“The loudes person in the room was rarely the most intelligent, and more often, the opposite.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“I am no fool-
And I would not waste my breath on one.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“A brother's advice should be how to skip a rock or how to sneak out without your parents knowing - not how to survive starvation and persecution.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening

“Do you want me to go insane?
Yeah I could use some company.”
― Virginia Mary, Across the Great Ocean: Awakening