Top 98 Erika Johansen Quotes
#1. My responsibility, she thought, and the idea brought no fear now, only an extraordinary sense of gratitude.
My kingdom.
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#2. The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE
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#3. You think I don't care about my people, but I do... - The Red Queen
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#4. Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty," the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. "No man can speak for God.
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#6. They're good, these stories," Mace continued, his cheeks stained with light color. "They teach the pain of others." "Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers.
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#7. Your Majesty's rescuer said a true thing, and one that's stayed with me. Often the direct way is the right way, for reasons that can't be foreseen.
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#8. It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it.
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#9. The problems of the past.
How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.
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#11. Some people were simply broken, something inside them grown wrong and twisted.
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#12. Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before.
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#13. Selfishness and self-destruction, riding hand in hand, as they so often did.
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#15. Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.
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#17. I know all about the wildness of youth, believe me. But regret has a terrible ability to follow you, long after youth has vanished
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#18. Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers. Lazarus,
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#19. But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles.
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#20. We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done
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#21. And Kelsea wondered suddenly whether humanity ever actually changed. Did people grow and learn at all as the centuries past? Or was humanity merely like the tide, enlightenment advancing and then retreating as circumstances shifted? The most defining characteristic of the species might be lapse.
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#22. Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over.
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#23. What does the Red Queen want, then?" Kelsea had asked Carlin. She had no interest in maps and wanted to wrap up the lesson.
"What conquerors always want, Kelsea: everything, with no end in sight.
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#24. I don't want to die, Arlen, but I would lay down my life for any of these men, or they for me. That's a real thing, sacrifice, but you will never understand it.
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#25. Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.
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#26. The hawk ripped out his jugular, spraying the morning sunlight with a fine mist of blood.
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#27. Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see.
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#28. Stick with hard copies; they're harder to alter after publication. In the better world, there won't be any electronics at all.
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#29. It's all right lady," Pen murmured. "I won't let you fall.
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#30. The Queen held up her hands for silence. At that moment, Javel knew for certain that she truly was the Queen, though he never knew why or how he knew.
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#31. Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.
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#32. I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.
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#33. The Tearling... I told them not to name things after me. - William Tear
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#34. An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real.
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#35. You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable.
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#36. These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value.
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#37. There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance.
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#38. as always, the story was the compelling thing, worth all of its suffering to find out the ending
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#39. Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not.
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#40. Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. "I haven't been crowned, Lazarus." "No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life.
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#41. I see that you have a knife behind your back... You will drop your knife. - Ewen, to Brenna
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#42. The Fetch was intelligent, diabolically so, and intelligent people devised intelligent cruelties. That was where the Red Queen had always excelled.
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#43. ...Javel saw evil in those bright blue eyes, not malevolence but something much worse: an evil born of lack of self-awareness, an evil that didn't know it was evil and therefore could justify anything.
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#44. Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it.
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#45. The air had lost its icy feel, but now a thin, sickly mist clung to everything, wrapping around tree trunks and moving over the ground in visible tides.
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#47. I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."
Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.
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#48. Vallee had taken an arrow in the knee from a sniper.
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#49. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.
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#50. Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later
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#51. Lady, if you don't wake up, I'm going to have you baptized.
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#52. This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.
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#53. If they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it.
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#55. Love was a real thing, Aisa thought, but secondary. Certainly love was not as real as her sword.
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#56. There's a better world out there, so close we can almost touch it.
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#57. You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.
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#58. Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open.
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#59. This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to whatever they want, whatever they can grab. Such people never ask themselves if they have the right. They consider no cost to anyone but themselves.
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#60. Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine?
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#61. The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they're just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.
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#62. You can defend your kingdom, or you can defend your people, Majesty. You don't have the manpower to do both at once."
"People are more important than land.
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#63. Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is.
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#64. Whenever she had a problem to consider, she invariably found herself in the library, for it was easier to think when she was surrounded by books.
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#65. Once in a while, usually when Ewen wasn't even trying, he would solve a mystery, and that was a great and extraordinary feeling, the way he imagined birds would feel as they swooped across the sky.
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#66. Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.
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#67. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.
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#68. Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage.
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#69. I'm sober."
"That's not my concern. I know you'll never make that mistake again."
"Then what's your concern?" the younger man asked, his tone aggressive.
"You and her.
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#70. We have trust, Lady, you and I?"
"I trust you with my life, Andalie.
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#71. I'll govern for the good of the governed.
I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.
I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land and goods and taxation.
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#72. Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
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#74. They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.
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#75. I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.
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#76. Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men.
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#77. Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.
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#78. The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.
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#80. One night she'd stayed up until dawn reading a particularly long novel, and she had been allowed to skip her chores and sleep away most of the next day.
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#82. Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left.
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#83. There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own.
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#84. Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best.
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#85. She had been ready to kill Da, ready for years, but now she was amazed to find that she had done something even more difficult: she had spoken aloud.
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#86. I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. Books everywhere, as common as they used to be in circulation before the Crossing, affordable even for the poor.
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#87. When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.
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#88. Even I won't defy her. She is terrible."
"Let me tell you a secret, General. I am worse.
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#89. Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.
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#90. Tell me, Mrs. Mayhew, have you ever dreamed of a better world?" "Who hasn't?" "Anyone who profits by keeping the world as it is.
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#91. A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.
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#92. And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The
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#93. Her old appearance had been genuine, and had gained her nothing. But her new appearance was worse, hollow and false, and anything that she gained by it would carry that falsity like a disease.
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#94. This country is diseased. The fortunate celebrate on the backs of the starving, the ill, the terrorised. The law affords no recourse to the disadvantaged. That's a historical sickness, and there's only one cure.
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#95. Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It
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#96. Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked.
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#97. She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain.
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