“Greatness takes time, Banu Nahida. Often the mightiest things have the humblest beginnings.”
― The City of Brass
― The City of Brass
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“But one can always read Austen.”
― The Jane Austen Society
― The Jane Austen Society
“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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