Rachel Hartman Quotes

• My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

  Rachel Hartman

  Interesting, Survival, Invisible

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.63, Random House

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• 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

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• We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

  Rachel Hartman

  Beautiful, Monsters

  "Seraphina". Book by Rachel Hartman, 2012.

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• Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

  Rachel Hartman

  Havens, Just One, One Thing

  Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.455, Random House

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• The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

  Rachel Hartman

  Simple, World, Hinges

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• 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, Needs, Treasure

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.164, Random House

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• 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

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• That’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 – and I do – then it’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

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.171, Random House

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• Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

  Rachel Hartman

  Lying, Loving You

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.362, Random House

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• The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

  Rachel Hartman

  World, Planes, Galaxy

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• I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

  Rachel Hartman

  Thinking, Broken

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.170, Random House

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• 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

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.363, Random House

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• Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

  Rachel Hartman

  Way, Facts, Belief

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• It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

  Rachel Hartman

  Metaphor

  Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.14, Random House

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• I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

  Rachel Hartman

  Cat, People, Way

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.7, Random House

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• I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

  Rachel Hartman

  Loneliness, Normal, Conditions

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• For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

  Rachel Hartman

  Math, Seductive, Underestimate

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.159, Random House

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• Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

  Rachel Hartman

  Procrastination, Court, Composer

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• The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

  Rachel Hartman

  Lying, May, Acceptable

  Rachel Hartman (2015). “Shadow Scale”, p.472, Random House

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• 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

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• 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

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• The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

  Rachel Hartman

  Stars, Might, Chance

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• Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

  Rachel Hartman

  Awkward, Emotion, Metaphor

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• 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

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• Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

  Rachel Hartman

  Knives, Heaven, Irony

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.104, Random House

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