Ada Palmer Quotes

One straying angel won’t make God tremble.

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

Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure.

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

Carlyle had come fluttering to the flame, lured by the false invitation Dominic had sent in Eloise's name and lured, too, by Eloise's conclusion that J.E.D.D. Mason was something not unlike a miracle. How confident the cousin was that in this golden age of peace and ever watching trackers, a virgin with a bag of gold could walk across this earth without danger. Our modern moths have bounced so many times off light bulbs they aren't prepared for torches and forget that wings can burn.

We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.

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.

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?