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The Empire of Gold

S.A. Chakraborty

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor.”

“If you rule by violence, you should expect to be removed by violence.”

“She told me to keep myself whole. That there wasn’t any shame in taking care of yourself in order to help those who needed you.”

“I do not believe ambitious men who say the only route to peace and prosperity lies in giving them more power—particularly when they do it with lands and people who are not theirs.”

“I find I can get a more accurate measure of a man when he’s not aware he’s being appraised.”

“You bet on whether or not I kissed your wife?" Ali was aghast. "What is wrong with the two of you?" When his brother and sister only cackled harder, he drew up. "I hate you. "I hate you both.”

“That made it worse, this passing of a barbed baton between women who, no matter how clever, how powerful, would always be known by the men to whom they were attached.”

“Luck is a fairy tale we use to make people feel better about the world being unfair as shit.”

“Dara hesitated and then spoke. “If what I have seen is true, it means there is peace for the worst of us. Rest for those who do not deserve it. It was beautiful. And it spoke to a mercy this world does not deserve.”

“Nahri was a survivor, and it was time to get to work.”

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