Robert Jackson Bennett, City Of Stairs Quotes

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

One has no room for vengeance, ' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.

I don't have the time or the energy to hate, " says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.