In every corner of the teeming globe people relaxed…

“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.”

— Ada Palmer

“I think all human beings, even I who have no right to ask more of the world, wish to see the future. I don’t…

— Ada Palmer

“Predators need the right to tear out each other’s throats.”

— Ada Palmer

“The witch’s eyes sparkled with secrets. “Sensayers are used to fearing God, so you know the right way to fear me, don’t you?”

— Ada Palmer

“There has to be an Outsider or the next strangest will be named Outsider.”

— Ada Palmer

“I don’t like boys.” I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentlemen of both sexes.”

— Ada Palmer

“Never create a personal enemy. Always keep layers of minions between yourself and someone you destroy, it’s safer that way.”

— Ada Palmer

“I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within.”

— Ada Palmer

“understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger’s powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.”

— Ada Palmer

“I trust my doctor with my life, but not my dirty laundry.”

— Ada Palmer

“No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.”

— Ada Palmer

“Golden Ages always end with Dark ones.”

— Ada Palmer

“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”

— Ada Palmer

“It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark.”

— Ada Palmer

“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you see them…

— Ada Palmer