S.E. Grove > Quotes

“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.”
― S.E. Grove , The Glass Sentence

“There can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“To be connected to the world is a constant, difficult labor.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“...It is not unusual for strangers in extreme circumstances to find themselves sharing a sudden familiarity. The shock of shared threat makes the stranger an ally. Then the stranger happens to be someone likable, someone who has seemed appealing and intriguing from the very beginning, then he will fit all the more readily into place, almost as if he was always meant to be there.”
― S. E. Grove

“Some things (and people) go elsewhere and soon return. Others go elsewhere and appear to want to stay. In those cases, the only solution for the very determined is to find them: to go elsewhere and bring them back.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“She was one part melancholy kindness, two parts mysterious unease.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“To hold out hope, to be willing to expect the impossible-these are courageous things. You have wonderful resilience.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“Memory is a tricky thing... It doesn't just recall the past, it makes the past. If you remember our trip as a few minutes, it will be a few minutes. If you make it something else, it will be something else.”
― S. E. Grove

“Was this always part of growing older? Sophia wondered. Perhaps it was: realizing the world was not obliged to give you what you wanted, and more importantly, deciding what you would do and how you would feel once the realization arrived. Would you sit back and resent the world? Would you make peace with it, and accept the unfairness without rancor? Or would you try to find and take what the world had not provided? Maybe all three, she reflected, at different moments.”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“There was nothing more beautiful than the perfect quiet that came with snowfall.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“A golden specific in a dark Age. The most beautiful remedy for the most brutal plague.”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“Maps guide through the shapeless time that would otherwise stretch boundlessly into the past and future.”
― S. E. Grove

“Where would I go? I am an outcast. Many times over. I do not belong among men, because of my face. I do not belong among Lachrima, because of my memories. I do not belong to any living Age, because the world I was a part of has ended. I have no place; I belong nowhere; I am nothing.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“It is difficult for us to grasp the peculiar glamour and significance the yellow metal held for the conquistadores. We respond instantly to the cool irony of a Hernán Cortés explaining to a Mexican chief that Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart, for which gold is the only specific; but in that coolness and irony, as in almost everything else, Cortés is atypical. —Inga Clendinnen,
Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“Was this always part of growing older? Sophia wondered. Perhaps it was: realizing the world was not obliged to give you what you wanted, and, more importantly, deciding what you would do and how you would feel once the realization arrived. Would you sit back and resent the world? Would you make peace with it, and accept the unfairness without rancor? Or would you try to find and take what the world had not provided? Maybe all three, she reflected, at different moments.”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“Space and skill are the only constraints.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“We are all, to some degree, dulled in our senses and our experience of the world. We are all, to some degree, suppressed by layers of accumulated grief. My unmarred features belie the gradual dulling of all those faculties that should animate a human being. We are all, to some degree, faceless.”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“Every moment of learning is essential.”
― S. E. Grove

“It has always been a haven for outsiders: people who find themselves unsuited to life anywhere else. But it is also known for being a place where people of great differences—the Mark of Iron, the Mark of the Vine—can be reconciled.”
― S.E. Grove, The Crimson Skew

“There is a certain kind of person who, from many years of being bullied, becomes convinced that bullies run the world, and that if they run the world they must have a right to run the world, and that if they have a right to run the world they must be running it as it is supposed to run.”
― S.E. Grove, The Golden Specific

“You're not going to tell me?" He smiled. "That would defeat the entire purpose. As I said, it's not skill that's required-it's the ability to think about things differently. If I tell you, you will simply memorize the method. If you have to discover it for yourself, you will understand how to apply the principle you learn.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“To hold out hope, to be willing to expect the impossible--these are courageous things.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence

“All you need...is something to do.”
― S.E. Grove, The Glass Sentence