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Lords Quotes

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Gena Showalter
“Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth.
Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a
fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”
Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night

George R.R. Martin
“A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.”
George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

George R.R. Martin
“When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.”
George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

Madeleine L'Engle
“Lords of fire and earth and water,
Lords of moon and wind and sky,
Come now to the Old Man's daughter,
Come from fathers long gone by.
Bring blue from a distance eye.

Lords of water, earth, and fire,
Lords of wind and snow and rain,
Give to my heart's desire.
Life as all life comes with pain,
But blue will come to us again.”
Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Dean Cavanagh
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they will make provisions for the sick and the poor. Air will be rationed by a privatized bureaucracy and only those who complete a series of stringent means tests will be allowed to breath freely. If this sounds like untenable dystopian sci-fi, you haven’t been paying attention. In the 17th century Dean Jonathon Swift satirically proposed that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. Many Lords in Westminster at the time took this as a sign that an Irish voice was finally speaking sense. The descendants of these Lords still stalk the corridors of power today. Never underestimate the callousness or the hereditary madness of the ruling class.”
Dean Cavanagh

Robin Talley
“Mary shook her head, chastened at how little she understood the working of this odd place, where there were multitudes of servant dining rooms, and lords helped other lords with their underclothes.”
Robin Talley, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“He who reaches them without having done wrong
Will exist there like a god.
Free-striding like the lords forever!”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Noor Al-Shanti
“The city had fallen, his parents had died, no shred of their old lives would be left by the shape-shifters, but there were still lords galloping around on horses that could uphold the old rules. The destruction and desperation had afforded Alistair a few moments of freedom to practice magic, but now he would go back to the life of poverty and misery and powerlessness that he had been born to.”
Noor Al-Shanti, A Kingly Sword

Chris Mentillo
“Remember, when you own stock in a company, you own a portion of that business.”
Chris Mentillo

Chris Mentillo
“I am convinced without a shadow of a doubt that there are some things in this world we simply cannot explain.”
Chris Mentillo