Chloe Garner > Quotes

“Money makes people foolish, and it makes them confident, and confident foolishness is a dangerous, dangerous combination. Because when their foolishness loses that money, their confidence blames it on someone else, and it makes them volatile and sometimes even violent.”
― Chloe Garner, The Queen's Seal

“People are always trying to prove that the way things are is wrong, and that someone should do something about it, to make the world better. Often it’s under the guise of ‘fairness’. People die because someone else thinks their theory of the world is more fair.”
― Chloe Garner, House of Midas

“Do you believe in the magic of Santa and Christmas, or don't you?

Those are two different things, Valerie said.

Yes. They are. And at the same time, they aren't. You can believe in one and not the other, sure, but they take the same amount of belief.”
― Chloe Garner, The Santa Legion

“Control is something that only works when the people you’re controlling allow it.  As soon as they decide they don’t like it, that control starts to die.”
― Chloe Garner, The Redemption of Maribeth-5

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― Chloe Garner, Murderers, Thieves, and Velvet

“that the cost of war isn’t just the soldiers’ wages and the food and weapons and armor you expend, equipping them, but it’s also the loss of everything else they would have made with their lives, while they were out fighting, and all of the experience they would have gained in that time, and that when a man dies at war, the country loses everything they ever might have done with the whole rest of their lives. War is incredibly expensive,”
― Chloe Garner, The Faerie's Secret

“There was something out there.  She didn’t know what, but by virtue of being a horizon, there had to be something out there beyond it.  There always was.”
― Chloe Garner, Portal Jumpers

“Biology, they said.  You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it.  She’d watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were. ”
― Chloe Garner, Portal Jumpers

“Comparing what you get out of life to everyone else is just giving away the happiness you get in what you have,” he said. “There is no joy in what you cannot have.”
― Chloe Garner, The Faerie's Secret

“He who controls the guns, so to speak, controls the country, no matter what the voters think.”
― Chloe Garner, Portal Jumpers