The Mirador
Sarah Monette
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.”
“It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower”
“You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.”
“The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.”
“If I was really, really lucky, Felix might throw a fireball at me, and I'd get out of the rest of this freakshow.”
“You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildmay would walk on knives for you.”
“You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildmay would walk on glass knives for you.”
“You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildamy would walk on knives for you.”
“Victoria wasn’t beautiful, but a stern regularity of feature made her uncompromisingly handsome.”
“She hadn’t been a beautiful woman when she was alive; her jaw was too heavy, eyes too small. But she’d clearly been a woman with appaling force of character; the heavy jaw was almost balanced by the uncompromising line of her mouth, and those small, flat, gray eyes reminded me of the one time I had come face to face with a rattlesnake somewhere out in the Grasslands to the west of the Bastion.”
Except where otherwise noted, all rights reserved to the author(s) of this book (mentioned above). The content of this page serves solely as promotional material for the aforementioned book. If you enjoyed these quotes, you can support the author(s) by acquiring the full book from Amazon.
Book Keywords:
humor, death, fantasy, awkward-moments, wizards, self-realization
