7 Quotes by Ambelin Kwaymullina

...the point was that no one ever knows when something they say will cause a profound change in somebody else

Our songs say humans fear difference, and when they are afraid, they will find a way to destroy what they fear. Unless they do not know it is there.

It [advanced technology] had isolated the people of the old world from nature, shielding them from the consequences of imbalance, and yet they’d believed, right up until the very end, that it would save them. But…advances in technology could never compensate for failures in empathy.

I stared up at the tuarts that towered over all the other plant life of the forest. They were so tall I could barely make out the tops, and so wide that Georgie and I would've had to join hands with about ten other people to circle the trunks.

You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.

I bared my teeth at him. “There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. There will be nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and no way to stop them from freeing every single Illegal in this centre. And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me.

I walk among my enemies. But I carry my friends with me.