Rachel Hartman famous quotes

03-28-2025

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Interesting #Survival #Invisible
Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Knives #Heaven #Irony
If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Stars #Single Mom #Air
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Home #Rocks #Long
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Awkward #Emotion #Metaphor
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Ignorance #Treasure #Needs
Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Believe #Men #Wrinkles
I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?
-- Rachel Hartman

#Bows #Study #Shots
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Book #Dragons #Age
Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Wall #Lying #Cities
The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Stars #Might #Twins
The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Lying #May
I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Thinking #Broken
The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.
-- Rachel Hartman

#World #Planes #Galaxy
Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Lying #Loving You
Thatâ€™s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art â€“ and I do â€“ then itâ€™s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Art #Lying #Believe
I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people whoâ€™d rather avoid them.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Cat #People #Way
We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Beautiful #Monsters
I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Loneliness #Normal
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
-- Rachel Hartman

#Math #Seductive #Underestimate
Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!
-- Rachel Hartman

#Procrastination #Court #Composer

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