“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you see them naked in each other’s arms, and fill even this plain scene with wanton sensuality? Linguists will… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the world it is, and… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“In every corner of the teeming globe people relaxed, believing I was dead. You were not wrong.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There has to be an Outsider or the next strangest will be named Outsider.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“I don’t like boys.” I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentlemen of both sexes.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“Never create a personal enemy. Always keep layers of minions between yourself and someone you destroy, it’s safer that way.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger’s powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
