45 Quotes by Traci Chee

Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American.

The dead no longer existed.Except in story.Some stories were modest in scale, existing in a single family or a small community of believers who whispered among themselves so their loved ones would not be forgotten.Others were so powerful they would transform the very fabric of the world.

What’s more important, is that you survived.”“Why?”The captain poured himself a finger of liquor and clinked their glasses. “Because survivors get to decide who the heroes are. And the villains.

If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done

It ain't worth livin' forever if you're just livin' for yourself.

It was little more than a weak flame flickering under the weight of his melancholia, but it was there. A splinter of possibility. Maybe he didn't want to die.Maybe, just maybe, he wanted to live.It didn't burn away his sadness. It didn't make his future appear any less dark.But it was there—hope, perhaps, or something like it—and it was enough.

It's the same with stories as it is with people. They get better as they get older. But not every story is remembered, and not all people grow old.

Everything in the world could be found in the points of contact between them: all the ins and outs of the tides, the pulsations of stars in the sky, and the running of wolves across the cold north—all part of the same rhythm.This one.Theirs.

Sentiment makes fools of us all.