A.D. Sui > Quotes

“Because blame points the anger. It gives it a target,”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Memory was a lying thing.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Why are you asking me? Go, do whatever it is you do. Don’t come back complaining if something kills you.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“I won't suggest that you forgive yourself, but just that you do not set yourself on fire in Tev's memory. You'll just burn yourself to the ground and maybe some of us with you as well. Let it burn, but don't stoke it. Don't chase it. I promise you, when this is all finished, I will sit with you so that you may rest. Iris used the same word for rest that Yan had. I'll sit with you while you heal, and we can remember together.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“And when I failed to do right for the dead, I turned to what I could do for the living.
And when I failed to do right for many, I turned to do right for the few.
And what I failed to change in myself, I will change in others.
And maybe that will be enough.
I will make it enough.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Despite countless decades lived, there were never enough years, never enough time with oneself, never enough time with others.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Alas, we were never meant to live in the future we were carving from the decaying carcass of your empire.”
― A.D. Sui, The Dragonfly Gambit

“Don't fight it, VIFAI finally said, sternly. Have the thought. Acknowledge it. Accept it for what it is, and move on. Don't engage. Don't wrestle it. You won't win.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Coincidence is the cadence of the universe, the metronome of the invisible flow of the Light. Where there is coincidence, there is unseen order, if one would only listen to it, and in that order, find many answers.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“from them as well? “Everything will eventually wither, Dr. Alo,” Iris said, reverent. “It’s what we are now that matters. And for now, these flowers are beautiful.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“When I woke, I was a child, crying and fragile. That was mere hours ago. Now I am all grown. My back can carry a man, carry them to their eternal rest. Then why, O, Infinite Light, is my mind still the mind of a child, crying and fragile? One day, my body will be aged, wise and frail, and yet my mind will still cry out "Who will save me? Who out there will save me?”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“We convince ourselves that as long as we’re angry with ourselves, as long as we blame ourselves, whatever it is we’re blaming ourselves for, we won’t forget it. We’re making someone pay. Justice is being served.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Grief and anger were the closest friends Iris had ever known, and he knew them to always travel in a pair.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“I’m especially worried about morale.” “I could lead a prayer,” Iris blurted out and immediately felt like an idiot. “It’s like you’re not even trying, Vessel.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“Many words brought many troubles with them. They formed cracks in the meaning through which misinterpretations could flow, flow to favour anyone who drank them.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra

“I didn't want you to die alone. It's not a good time. You wouldn't have liked it. But when I got to you, there was nothing I could do. I couldn't move you. I couldn't fight our way out. All I could do was stay. Sometimes that's all people like me can do.”
― A.D. Sui, The Iron Garden Sutra