Alya

“These people were utterly human. But what was human? Human was not just family dinners, human was also the Inquisitions of Philip, the extermination of the Mayans, the terrible Reconstruction of the Community. Human meant cruelty as well as love, human was protecting one’s own at the expense of others. Human also meant having the capacity to change.”
― Nicola Griffith, Ammonite

“Leifin was obsessed by perfection and possessions. It was an obsession that prevented her from seeing any difference between carving something beautiful and killing another thinking, feeling being for its fur.”
― Nicola Griffith, Ammonite

“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.”
― Alix Kates Shulman, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

“It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.”
― Nicola Griffith, Ammonite