Sarah

“I guess they train you not to feel things, the scars left behind. In the Parthenon. Rock-hard warrior angels, all that."

"They train us to talk about it. They train us to heal, and not to deny we're in pain. Rock-hard is brittle.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“I've heard all the things they say about my people across the Colonies, Idris. Probably they think I'm a monster who'll come and kill their menfolk and make regular humanity a footnote in our triumphal histories, right? Or else we're sex-starved sirens who just need to meet a good man to forswear all our Amazon ways."

"You've seen some mediotypes."

"Executor training means exposure to some weird stuff. I'd rather have stayed a simple myrmidon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth

“I say, “scientist,” “scholar,” but when I speak to them, in their language, these are both cognates for “wizard.” I imagine myself standing there speaking to Lyn and saying, “I’m not a wizard; I’m a wizard, or at best a wizard.” It’s not funny.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elder Race

“No, she said, for the blight of the english will come to this remoteness as well. It will spread into this land and infect this land and devour the people who were here first; it will slaughter them, diminish them. The hunger inside the god of my people can only be sated by domination. They will dominate until there is nothing left, then they will eat themselves. I am not of them. I will not be.”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds