Virginia au Augustus Quotes

"I’ll never get used to seeing the fear Sevro wakes in people. Deep down they know Darrow is operating on a framework of logic. No one, not even me, believes that Sevro is completely sane."

"I believe we all begin equal parts light and dark. I fear you think your strength lies in your darkness. But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends."

"the moment you become Sovereign, you become loneliest person in all the worlds, because there is no new endeavor, no new height to which you can ascend. Whatever loneliness is already inside you is magnified, because if you were lucky enough to have anyone understand you before, they won’t understand you after you sit in the Morning Chair. Only one person alive at a time knows what it means to be Sovereign."

"There is evil in us, as there is good. But we do not regret our good as we do our evil. So we know what we are, my daughter. We know what we are."

"Sarcasm never inspired anyone."

"amputations on the field are best done without consulting the patient."

"We are a pride. We kill together, we work together, we survive together. They came for a hunt, but they forgot: hic sunt leones.”"

"Lysander may promise a new age, but he’ll sacrifice a generation to get it."

"Golds are a faithless breed, founded in the gross sobriety of atheism, but the rest of the Colors are willing to believe."

"Sheathed is my blade, held fast by my word,” he says. “True are my words, secured by my name,” I reply."

"I doubt you had Darrow’s full attention. You must wonder what will happen when you do. Will you measure up?"

"You don’t have me by the throat. You have me by the balls. You can wrench and twist and it will cause me terrible agony. But in the end, they are just balls, and I am a woman, so I will go on, enduring without my balls and I will pester you with death by a billion cuts. Except it won’t be me. I am not a captain who goes down with his ship. I am a Sovereign, who will delegate to people more suited for tunnels and darkness and the horrors that happen there."

"Nothing makes wisdom like true loss,"