11 Quotes by Fonda Lee

My grandfather taught me that if a friend asks for your forgiveness, you should always give it. [...] He also taught me that if you have to give it again, then they weren't a friend to begin with.

Sometimes, Andy, the people you think you can count on, they let you down in a bad way, and that's hard to take. But for the most part, you give a man something to live up to, you tell him he can be more than he is now, more than other people think he'll ever be, and he'll try his godsdamned best to make it true.

You didn't need to speak sweetly and offer patronage at every turn to these people. You had to be honest with them and show that they had more to gain from your friendship than your enmity.

He insists he loves me too much to let me get involved in the war in any way … and I love him too much to obey.

True love, Hilo mused, was sensual and euphoric, but also painful and tyrannical, demanding obedience.

The possibility of death was like the weather - you could make attempts to predict it, but you would likely be wrong, and no one would change their most important plans due to the threat of rain.

We're getting into a dangerous game, Hilo.""You have to go where your enemies are," Hilo said. "And then further.

Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.