Makiia Lucier > Quotes

“We are not promised a long life, Cassia. Just a life. Take what happiness you can. Hold tight to it.”
― Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

“What I would give right now, to feel nothing.”
― Makiia Lucier, A Death-Struck Year

“Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary.”
― Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

“I hope that the foolish things we do when we're sixteen, seventeen, twenty, whenever - I hope they don't define who we are forever.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“I’m not afraid of these ghosts, Cleo. I have enough of my own to keep me company.”
― Makiia Lucier, A Death-Struck Year

“I know what it’s like to lose a friend and wonder why you’re the one left behind. To think that nothing makes sense. Not one thing.”
― Makiia Lucier, A Death-Struck Year

“The rain came before I'd gone a block. A few drops at first, and then a downpour. I didn't turn back. I tipped my face to the sky. Welcomed the coolness on my skin. In this world of mine, it was the rain, it was the rain alone, that made sense.”
― Makiia Lucier, A Death-Struck Year

“We humans are complicated creatures. There are so many in-betweens within us.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“If you could sail off today, where would you go?"
She set aside her lead as she thought about his question. Her face took on a dreamy quality, and her answer, when it came, did not surprise him.
"I would go everywhere.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“One could fill an entire world with all the things we did not know.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“May Taga find your spirit and guide you home
to the sea beyond.
In clear water
where danger will never catch you.
Among the coral and caves
where the bounty is full.
Alongside your ancestors
and their ancestors
that loneliness never hold you.
His kingdom your own
beloved child of the gods.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“But death can transform a man into a myth. A legend even he would not recognize.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“You wonder why I stay,” I said. “Sometimes I wonder too. But I hate to think of a child, of anyone really, lying somewhere sick and scared, waiting for help that does not come.”
― Makiia Lucier

“He had come into Elias’s life when the boy was nearly five, wooing both mother and son with such single-minded determination that Sabine, Lady Isidore, laughingly referred to their courtship as a siege.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“We are defined by our hardships, Hanaleiarihi, and how we face them. We are made stronger or weaker by those we hold closest to us.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“Bad men are capable of generous acts. It's a rare person who is completely evil. The reverse is also true. A good man may commit a terrible thing and spend the rest of his life trying to set things right.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“It was a fine night to die.”
― Makiia Lucier, A Death-Struck Year

“his face was the red of a boiled crab shell.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“We are defined by our hardships, and how we face them. We are made stronger or weaker by those we hold closest to us.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“That fat rice merchant. With the curly hair. Dimas.”
― Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

“My grandfather used to say that history is written by the historians, and we are all of us flawed.”
― Makiia Lucier

“Sam was quiet. Sometimes it was hard to look at her”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“Tamarind was a matriarchal society. There, the women ruled.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“It was one thing to pretend she was from nowhere. It was another to understand exactly where she came from and know she could never return.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“There’s nothing for you on Tamarind, Hanalei. Your family’s dead. You’re all alone. No one’s coming for you. Captain Bragadin had been wrong. She was not alone. Someone had come for her.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“Do you mean to tell me", Ventillas said in a voice more terrifying for how calm it was, "that you allowed three men of Palmerin to be sent to their deaths, condemned my brother to a Brisan prison, because of a girl?”
― Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper

“We do not keep a tally with the people we care about. Our family, our friends. We help them because we love them, and we expect nothing in return.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“Lord Isidore, the only father he knew.”
― Makiia Lucier, Isle of Blood and Stone

“sam was quiet, sometimes it hurt to look at her and know at closely they had come to missing one another”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit

“We are defined by our hardships, Hanaleiarihi, and how we face them. We are made stronger or weaker by those we hold closest to us.” She dropped her hand. “Look after each other. Come home safely.”
― Makiia Lucier, Dragonfruit