The Never Tilting World Quotes

“A demoness
Is what men call
A goddess they cannot control.

There is no shame
In goddesses falling
Into the Abyss
Where they find new purpose
As darkness.

Praise the women who fly
And fail to succumb to
Night;
Death sustains Inanna,
Who is one and whole,
Who sacrifices her life into the below
To save her life in the Above
Who is the sacrificed and the sacrificer,

The demoness and the goddess
Rule the heavens
And the Cruel Kingdom
As two, but One.

As the enduring Above,
So shall the Great Below.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“We’re chasing a dying sea under an endless sun that kills us with a thousand little cuts every day. There’ll be nothing left soon. Nothing but sand and bone.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“Night and day rule from their two thrones,

Where the darkest hour and the brightest light meet
the Hellmouth shall be crossed
by she strengthened under the gift of day,
by she liberated with the gift of light.
And the world is whole again.

But the Cruel Kingdom hungers for a sacrifice.
Sacrifice overthrows chaos.
Sacrifice is necessary
for what was two to become one.

Test your worth; offer
to her, Inanna’s immortality.
She will grieve endlessly for the sister
Who slumbers in the house of the dead,
but her tears will save us all.

And until the Gates of Death and Life interwine,
Love continues to be the toll.
And she will pay.
She will pay.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“If the choice is between me risking my life and losing you, I’d choose the first.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“It was clearly his fault I'd punched him in the face.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“When they approach with lapis lazuli, accept their offer of clarity.
When they approach with the blue turban of the open country, accept their offering of courage.
When they approach with the twin-egg beads, accept their offering of abundance.
When they approach with the lapis brooch, accept their offering of life.
When they approach with the jeweled measuring rod, accept their offer of beginnings and endings.
When they approach with the sapphire ring, accept their offering of rulership.
When they approach with the glittering eyes, accept their offer of a mother’s love.
For every gift, a terror.
For every radiance, a sacrifice.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“I had battered down seas, dispelled storms. Surely coming clean about my feelings was an easier task.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“Well excuse me for working a miracle in just under 3 hours.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“The Royal Sun Goddess, Heiress to the Realms of Light, Blessed of the Sun, Second of the Blood, and enemy of my people, was a blithering idiot.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“When the dead find words, the goddess and the Devoted son will meet atop a fish not a fish, on a sea not a sea. It is she who travels to the endless Abyss, and it is he who guides her.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“Please,” I begged, pressing a kiss against his cheek. “Please look at me. Look at me when I tell you I’m in love with you. Yell at me for as long as you like, call me an idiot from here to Brighthenge and back. Just… let me tell you that I love you. Tell me you know that. Please.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“Her name was Ame. She had gorgeous grey eyes and a gently rounded face, but it was her hair, coal black and windwild that had drawn me in the first time.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“Stop trying to make me your friend,” I growled, not liking how easily she threw the word destined about.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“They can defend themselves, and they can attack if they think we’re a threat, so I don’t advise throwing things at them.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business. Especially with a Catseye who’d just been stood up by her date.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World

“For every radiance, a sacrifice.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World