T.A. White > Quotes

“Naw. I think I’m growing on her. She hasn’t tried to escape for a whole week.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“Himoto had once called war ninety percent boredom so extreme you'd do anything for relief and ten percent sheer, unrelenting terror.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“But there’s more to attraction than the exterior packaging. The color of your eyes has been burned into my brain since that man ripped away your hood in Edgecomb. The feel of your body when I caught you on the wagon has tormented me in dreams ever since. I never know what is going on behind those eyes of yours.” He gave her a wicked smile and Shea’s breath caught at the sight. “You are a constantly evolving puzzle. It drives me mad, and for someone like me, who can guess an opponent’s move before they even make it, that is more attractive than a fragile thing like appearance could ever be. You ask why you. How could it be any but you?”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“I'm going to appeal to his better nature," Graydon said. Solal sighed. "You mean you're going to threaten him." Graydon shrugged. Same difference.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“The truth is a weapon best wielded carefully.”
― T.A. White, Mist's Edge

“One day she was going to get control of
herself and stop doing stupid shit to save ungrateful idiots.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“Hate and prejudice flourished in ignorance. It was easier to believe a stereotype when you never had anyone to compare to your misconceptions. It was harder when you had a living, breathing person challenging them.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Jin made a sound as high pitched as a tea kettle as his spherical body vibrated with excitement. "Pirate hunters. We're going to be pirate hunters." Damn it. She'd lost him. Jin bobbed up and down, looking like a jack in the box. "I never say this, but be yourself, Kira, and we can realize our lifelong dream." Jin screamed to himself as he careened in a circle. "We'll get a big fancy hat and an artificial leg. This is going to be great.”
― T.A. White, Threshold of Annihilation

“But she knew better than anybody, home wasn't a place; it's a state of mind. It's the people you're with. And for her, those people were all here.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“She yearned for Graydon's presence. Pushing him off a cliff would have gone a long way to improving her mood right about now.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“You could accomplish some truly heinous things once emotion has been tucked away. Anger dies, eventually, if you sate it with enough blood. Hate fades. Grief dwindles. There are reasons behind emotion. Such is not the case with true detachment. “Where”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“I've always admired your ability to create enemies without even trying," Raider said. "It’s good to see that hasn't changed in the intervening years.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Mom always said heroes made for shitty parents. She was right.”
― T.A. White, Threshold of Annihilation

“Jin crowed. "The Kira special. A remark guaranteed to send the recipient to Angerville, by way of Fury Road. I like your style, Kira Forrest. It gets me right in my tingly bits.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“You're a menace," Finn told her. Kira nodded. "So I've been told." She'd never let that stop her before. She didn't see why she'd change now.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“Kira thrust with her palm, hitting the woman's chest and catching her off guard. A grunt left her as she swayed, tripping and falling to the ground at Graydon's feet. He regarded the woman with an amused twist to his lips before his gaze rose to find Kira's. "I didn't know we were at the gift-giving stage of our courtship. I confess I didn't get you anything.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“The point was that she was right, and they were wrong. If they’d listened, everybody would still be alive. They didn’t, so they were dead. Not her problem. She’d done her job.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“She'd learned many hard lessons about the peril of letting hope run away with you. It was the ultimate liar, an illusion turning smart people into fools, sundering their hearts from their chests when hope inevitably crashed them against the rocky shore.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“The one thing you learn if you survive long enough is what to give head space to and what to ignore.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Listening to the nonsense of others or comparing yourself to them will only serve to hold you back. Develop the talents you have until you know every facet of them.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Sometimes storms revealed hidden treasures, wiping away the old rot and replacing it with something stronger. Other times they washed everything away, leaving nothing in their wake but devastation.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“He gave her a look. One that said he was this close to relegating her to idiot territory.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“One step at a time. Like everything else in life. Focus on the next thing. Only then could you look up.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“You hit me," she said. "It was an accident." "This will be too," she informed him.”
― T.A. White, Threshold of Annihilation

“What are they doing?" he asked with a scowl. "Practicing," Kira said succinctly. "Practicing for what?" "The shitstorm that is life.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“I'm not so prideful as to deny myself an opportunity, no matter how it came to me.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Witt paused by Dane as he followed her down the hill. “Perhaps you shouldn’t do any more thinking. It really doesn’t suit you.”
― T.A. White, Pathfinder's Way

“She'd found being proactive worked a whole heck of a lot better than waiting for others to make the decisions for you.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption

“didn't matter what skills or talents you had been born with if you didn't make the most of them, surpassing the limits others placed on you.”
― T.A. White, Age of Deception

“Humans, whatever they might mean to the Tuann, had saved her. At her lowest moments, they'd found her, given her warmth and companionship. Not just once, but many times. She'd sacrificed more than Graydon would ever know for humanity's cause, for their very survival. She might have distanced herself from them, but it didn't mean she'd forgotten. Nor did she plan to leave them behind because it was convenient.”
― T.A. White, Rules of Redemption