Kestrel Trajan Quotes

#1. Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

Marie Rutkoski

#2. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.

Lee Clow

#3. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Dan C. Quayle

#4. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city.

Marie Rutkoski

#6. I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

Lili Taylor

#7. Komatsu's view is that there are always two sides to everything," Tengo said. "A good side and a not-so-bad side.

Haruki Murakami

#8. If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#9. It's not the way I wanted to spend eternity with the man I love, but it will have to do. At least we are together.

Theresa Braun

#10. I don't feel uncomfortable in forbidding institutions, and work with, say, prisons or psychiatric institutions could be one of the things that evolve out of the Laureateship.

Chris Riddell

#11. He said, "How can the inconsequence of your life not shame you?"
He said, "How do you not feel empty?"
I do, she thought as she pushed through the library doors and let them thud behind her. I do.

Marie Rutkoski

#12. An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. Innocent? Her? Never.

Marie Rutkoski

#14. The guard hit Kestrel across the face. "I said, what did you give him?"
You had a warrior's heart, even then.
Kestrel spat blood. "Nothing," she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. "I gave him nothing.

Marie Rutkoski

#15. Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning,

Marie Rutkoski

#16. A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

Brian Posehn

#18. A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise.

Marie Rutkoski