14 Quotes by Suzanne Rindell

It's a myth that people who live in cities are naturally more open-minded, more accepting and tolerant of difference. The truth is, whatever people are, be it saints or bigots, they simply are these things, and the city - by smashing all those different kinds of people up against one another - just makes people's tolerance (or lack of it) all that much more pronounced.

I had lived and left all the living I'd done in that strange, perfectly sculpted yet empty echo of my life,

She was called Helen - a name, I fear, that may have gone to her head, for she frequently acted as though she had confused herself with Helen of Troy.

What was justice, after all, but a particular outcome?

In those days, I straddled more than a handful of worlds, which is also to say I belonged wholly to none.