“We spent ten thousand years perfecting gender, more: gendered clothing, gendered gestures, gendered language, gendered thought, a hundred thousand tools of seduction, so literally all a maiden had to do was let a glimpse of ankle show beneath her skirts… — 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
