Andrea Stewart > Quotes

“I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Fanatics were all alike, cut from the same cloth and dyed different colors.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“And that was the worst thing about this grief – not just knowing that she was gone, but knowing that eventually new memories and experiences would layer on top of them, making the distance between us ever wider.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Old men always think they know better than everyone else, even when the world has long since changed around them.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“A coward is not a man who feels fear. A coward is one who would volunteer others for suffering he would not take on himself.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“A person who can’t see a future doesn’t have a future”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“When a shark offers up a pearl, be wary of its teeth. My father liked to tell me that when we were sailing, though I found this lesson most often applied on land.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I didn’t live in a palace. I lived in a dollhouse of my father’s making, a living graveyard. Despite the fact that Ilith’s lair was the size of the dining hall, I felt I was being crushed by the weight of the surrounding stone. If he knew, why let me continue? Was this all some sort of test? And if the sickness hadn’t come from Bayan, where had I gotten it from?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“One foolish choice is like a rat you let go. It will spawn more consequences than you first thought possible.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“When I was in the water," Mephi said, "I didn't know where to go. I had to find someone to help me. I swam to you because I knew you would help me. I know who you are...You are the person who helps”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“It’s a fantasy that makes the Sukais sound more noble and intrepid than they actually are. In the end we are all animals, scraping by with what we can. None of us are noble.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“But we shouldn’t have to hope for the kindness of the rich. We need to take what we’re due.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard War

“had to know my place, he’d said, otherwise others would decide my place for me.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“One thing the monks taught me was that history is not a line; it is a spiral. We don’t repeat moments in time, but we come back around, echoing them.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“When you’re young, you think you can change the world. You think you can bend it to your will. When you’re old, you learn to change your small corner of it and live with the rest.”
“So am I old now?”
She gave me a narrow-eyed look. “Older.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“I am hardened by the suffering of others. Another lie I told myself because I couldn't save everyone.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“It wasn’t fair that Jovis should have the love and adoration of the Empire’s people, and I had to fight for even a modicum of respect.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“And that was the worst thing about this grief – not just knowing that she was gone, but knowing that eventually new memories and experiences would layer on top of them, making the distance between us ever wider. The days we’d spent swimming and fishing at the beach, the first time I’d kissed her, the dreams we’d shared – I was now the only keeper of these memories, and that was the truest sort of loneliness.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“But guilt was there to remind me of when I misstepped. The only thing I could do now was to make amends.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Knowledge can only be wielded by those who dive into its depths and know the shape of it. Reading without true understanding is only wading in the shallows without a care for the monsters that lurk beneath.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“Dragging myself from bed seemed easier when I was doing it for someone else.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“I’ve given them that land, and they need to repay me somehow. It’s a fair bargain. The trees don’t take up all of the land, and they can grow crops on the rest. I didn’t force them to it; they took the bargain of their own volition. Any failure is laziness on their parts.” He shook his head and took another drink. “You sound like one of the Shardless. Save your pity for the unfortunate without choices.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“We’ve all suffered—but because you think you’ve suffered more, that gives you a right to dismiss what others are going through?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“A song isn’t impenetrable armor. They write songs about dead people too, you know.” “But are they quite so catchy?”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“I’m learning to. What’s the point of having power if we can’t use it to help people? The farmers, the gutter orphans – they’re no different than you or me.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“The lie I told you… it’s something my father would have done.” I shook my head as though I could shake myself free of the guilt. But guilt was there to remind me of when I misstepped.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter

“But beneath that you have the strongest, most compassionate heart of anyone I’ve ever known. Any child would be lucky to feel a fraction of the love I know you’re capable of. We’ll figure this out together.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor

“How could she condone the deaths of these people just because they were not her people? Happenstance had placed them elsewhere. It was easier to think of people she did not know as less significant, but that didn’t make it right.”
― Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Emperor