177 Quotes by Jennifer A. Nielsen

We will not win, we will not get glory, not in this life, anyway. We are fighting for the three lines of history just so that it will not be said that our youth went like sheep to the slaughter.

The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.

Individuality was a weakness, a sickness of the west. So we all walked in step, eyes ahead, and with conversations at a minimum. We.

How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. “You ban their books.

I couldn’t see much, but it somehow seemed brighter across the wall, as if the sun gave more of it’s light to the west. Maybe the people there were more selfish, I thought. Because we needed that sunlight far more than they did.

I had plenty of money in a satchel inside my trunk, but if they were going to kidnap me, then they could do it with their own coins.

If this was a sample of what it would be like to work with Trina, I would soon die from prolonged exposure to idiocy.

The resistance was not about who lived and who died. It was about the way we lived, and the way we would die when our time came.

One to Vanquish One to Rule One to Fall But All to Fool.