Vespertine
Margaret Rogerson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes, if you want to save other people, you need to remember to save yourself first.”
“If there’s one thing I can always rely upon, it’s the reassuring dependability of human idiocy. Give your kind a century or so, and they’ll happily repeat the exact same mistakes that nearly wiped them all out a few generations before.”
“I wished I were better at speaking. All those thoughts were in my head, but I didn’t know how to get them out.”
“Me, the goat, the revenant, we weren't very different from each other in the end. Perhaps deep down inside everyone was a just a scared animal afraid of getting hurt, and that explained every confusing and mean and terrible thing we did.”
“I’ll have you know that I’m very good-looking by undead standards”
“The first humans who got possessed, the ones who went on to become saints; they weren’t all strong enough to control unbound spirits, were they? They couldn’t have been. At least some of them must have fought with their spirits the same way I do.” “Yes,” the revenant said, after a long, ancient-feeling pause. “They were our friends.” “Then does that mean we’re—” “You had better not push it, nun. I can possess you whenever I want. I could do far worse than make you murder someone. I could make you try on hats.”
“This dream again,” he murmured breathlessly. “My favorite.” “Which dream is that?” My voice sounded hoarse. “The one in which Saint Artemisia stands over me in judgement.” “I told you, I’m not a saint.” “Even in my dreams,” he said softly. “you never cease arguing with me.” He said this with distant wonderment, as though it were a quality he admired.”
“They would martyr me themselves to satisfy their hunger for a saint.”
“Perhaps the decisions that shaped the course of history weren’t made in scenes worthy of stories and tapestries, but in ordinary places like these, driven by desperation and doubt.”
“The revenant had devoured the populations of entire cities; it was also the entity who ordered me to eat my pottage.”
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Book Keywords:
trust, fear, martyrs, inspirational, saints
