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Nyxia

Scott Reintgen

Top 10 Best Quotes

“You can’t expect to always feel like yourself. Just don’t lose who you are. Are you a bad person? Of course not. Does that mean you’ll always do the right thing? Of course not. No one’s perfect.”

“I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to be better than the other guy.”

“You will be glad that you are not like them. You'll be glad that you showed mercy to those who did not deserve it. Watching you gives me hope. If we are to send representatives down to a new world, they should not be people without mercy. Babel chose you because you're poor. They thought you would be easy to manipulate. Twice you've proven them wrong. Twice you've set the sword aside when they've asked you to swing it. When you look back, it won't be mercy that you regret.”

“It’s just one day, I remind myself. My fight is one of decades and generations. One bad day won’t stop me from rising up. I won’t quit, not today, not ever.”

“Bright fires can still burn out, though.”

“You're broken," she answers quietly. "The same kind of broken as me.”

“There’s not much left for me on Earth. I wanted to go as far away as possible. Where better than a new planet?” Her eyes squeeze shut for a second. “But they don’t tell you the pain comes with you. They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”

“Life’s thrown shots at me from every direction. Through all of it, I learned that distance is its own kind of armor.”

“It’s hard to tell the difference between rich and wrong.”

“Be worthy. Not in their eyes, but in yours. Break the rules you need to, but never forget who you are and where you come from. When they knock you down, and they will, don’t you quit on me.”

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Book Keywords:

revenge, poverty, mercy

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