Ada Palmer

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

— Ada Palmer

“In every corner of the teeming globe people relaxed, believing I was dead. You were not wrong.”

— Ada Palmer

“I think all human beings, even I who have no right to ask more of the world, wish to see the future.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ada Palmer

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

— Ada Palmer

“The great breakthrough of our age is supposed to be that we measure success by happiness, admiring a man for how much…

— Ada Palmer

“The sensayer frowned. “You’re saying you discuss theology while having sex.” “For beginners it’s before and after mostly, managing it during sex…

— Ada Palmer

“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came…

— Ada Palmer

“Mr. Smith is a banker, Mrs. Christian is a nurse, as if those twenty or forty or sixty hours made the other…

— Ada Palmer

“One straying angel won’t make God tremble.”

— Ada Palmer

“A brothel?” Madame chuckled at Carlyle’s timidity. “You mustn’t be scared of the word. I usually call it a Gendered Sex Club.…

— Ada Palmer

“Secrets pour out like water, even from a single hole”

— Ada Palmer

“Perhaps your better age is finally past it, reader, but my society—despite our neuter efforts—still shoves gender down our throats, imbibed in…

— Ada Palmer

“Since ancient days there has been a name for Senatorial recommendations that carry the force, not of law, but of the Will…

— Ada Palmer