15 Quotes by Trish Mercer

Remember this moment when you first realized that the government can’t properly take care of people. In fact, that’s never been their responsibility. They’re supposed to keep our borders safe so that we can live as we wish. It’s our responsibility—yours and mine and Zenos’s and everyone else’s—to take care of each other.

You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.

Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.

After five or six weeks of listening to his sermons on healing and renewing, Edgers felt healed and renewed—especially after the caravan of supplies arrived from Idumea—and stopped attending. When the crisis was gone, so was the need to feel the Creator.

Education can so easily unseat one’s confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.

This is what politics is about, right? We help the people discover the threat to their security, then we provide them with a solution.