Miriam Forster > Quotes

“Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true,”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“People have to name everything. It’s how they feel safe.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“a hard soul is a brittle soul and thus too easily broken.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“People in pain are easily swayed.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“There is the secret that no one may know, the kind one kills to protect. And then there is the secret that everyone may know, but no one will admit to knowing.”
― Miriam Forster, City of a Thousand Dolls

“One of the few pleasures left to an old person like me is the ability to speak my mind whenever I choose. Especially when it’s the truth.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“We’re not familiar with you, and unfamiliar things are frightening. Some people let that fear tip into hate.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“And with time, anything was possible.”
― Miriam Forster, City of a Thousand Dolls

“You are so much stronger than you think you are, Mara. Anyone can fight when they're unwounded. It takes a special sort of person to keep fighting when they're broken.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows

“frightened people often cling to the easy answer”
― Miriam Forster, City of a Thousand Dolls

“Mirrors reflecting

Doubling the laughing crowd

Lies set in glass

I see no bright eyes

Peering out from this jeweled mask

I, too, am a lie”
― Miriam Forster, City of a Thousand Dolls

“Her mind wandered while her hands cleaned. Half-formed plans, slices of memory, and bits of conversation flowed past like grain falling out of a sack.”
― Miriam Forster, City of a Thousand Dolls

“It is only in the highest and lowest castes that identity is permanent, only at the extremes of society that people can least afford to forget who they are.”
― Miriam Forster, Empire of Shadows