50 Quotes by Marjorie M. Liu

The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.

Too bad people don't rebuild themselves so easily.

He betrayed you, too.""I can't abandon people because they make mistakes - I would have to abandon myself.

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

Power is transient. Power can flow from one person to another. The most powerful person in a room isn’t the wealthiest or the one with the most connections. It’s the person who believes the strongest, the one who has the most confidence. And, sometimes, it’s the person who can make everyone else feel like less of themselves.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

I’ve got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn’t make me in your image. You made me into something worse. I have to know what that is.