Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesnt make it any less terrifying.

She realized shed been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until shed checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation.

I think youre wrong.Think what you like.

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

Humanitys relationship with the Divine is one of mutual give and take, and we mutually opted to part ways. But this perpetuation - setting up a way of thinking, and just letting it run - it doesnt always yield good results.

Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. Its like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you dont always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!

Every second is a forever in Wink. Every day is a cool afternoon waiting to happen. And every life is one lived quietly, with your feet up and your sun-dappled lawn before you as you watch the world happily drift by.

Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves.... Moments made physical, untouchable, perfect, like preserving a dead hornet in crystal, one drop of venom forever hanging from its stinger.She felt overwhelmed. It was--she briefly thinks of herself and Vo, reading together in the library--a lot like being in love for the first time.

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.