70 Quotes by Ryan Graudin

I am Farway Gaius McCarthy, son of Empra McCarthy. Birth date unavailable. With timelessness in my blood and nowhere calling to my heart.

The guard grabbed Yael’s hand, snapped his pen across her skin in two quick strikes. X marks the survivor.

Hope. A strange word. In her past, it had been a light, wispy thing. Crushed as easily as a finger under a guard’s boot. But now... now hope weighed so much, as if the Colosseum itself had collapsed on top of her. Mortar and suffering. Brick and time.

Even at their most basic function, needles do two things: They give and they take away.

When humanity steps into the shoes of gods, things will go awry.

Who do you love the most?” It seemed like a dangerous query, the way it was asked: razored syllables, hungry breath beating, beating against the black. “Myself.

He worshipped the past with a strange fervour. It was, he liked to tell her, the weight all mankind was born to bear. The roots we did not choose, but chose us.

He wanted to meet history face-to-face. He wanted to be the blood in its veins, as it was in his.

Time flies when you’re plundering history.