“You have such a great fear of freedom, brother. It's shackling you. You've identified so hard with the colonizer, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can't be one of them?”
― Babel
― Babel
“You wanted him because he was handsome, but most importantly, he was safe. You weren’t meant for a life of safety. A life of kisses on your cheek and mediocre fucking. A life of gossiping with villagers.”
― A Court This Cruel & Lovely
― A Court This Cruel & Lovely
“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.”
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
― Mistborn: The Final Empire
“We have to die to get their pity. We have to die for them to find us noble. Our deaths are thus great acts of rebellion, a wretched lament that highlights their inhumanity. Our deaths become their battle cry. I don't want to be their Imoinda, their Oroonoko. I don't want to be their tragic, lovely lacquer figure. I want to live.”
― Babel
― Babel
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