Holly Bodger Quotes

Piercing my eyes with a look so convincing he could tell me to jump off Agnimar Cliff and my only question would be
Should I go head- or feetfirst?

Some of the families starve themselves so they can fatten up their sons before their tests. This is like the market vendors who display their fruit shiny side up.

We open our desire for a bright future to your hearts

We're told to plug our noses
to escape the smells.
Manure.
Rot.
Poverty?
Reality.

I want
a future.
a choice.
a place other than here.

We girls watch from our boxes like orchids in a greehouse. Sheltered from the past. Blinded to the future.

I do need to remind you
there is no point in being fair
to others
if you've forgotten to be fair
to yourself.

This was the part the president left out of her speech this morning. She said that everyone in the old country got rid of their baby girls, but this is a lie. The rich could afford to pay the steep fines and the poor weren't afraid to hide them in places the officials didn't want to look. The president doesn't want to remind people of this. She wants them to believe that obedience is the only option. Like all leaders, her reign depends on it.

Nani's allegiance is to her anger
and
anger
runs deeper than blood and skin.
It's set in bone
and bone, once broken,
never
heals the same.

Do not let anger over the past become the fuel that fire your future

They've been promised a full stomach for their success, a noose for their failure...

No, we cannot change
the mistakes we've left behind.
But there's one thing we can do -
one thing I must do -
we can choose not
to repeat them.

this is neither a game of choice nor a life of choice. It's one of influence: Hers. And one of acceptance: Mine.

Better to play fair for a life of hate than cheat for a life of love

You can only give away that which is yours to lose.

Obedience is fickle that way. It's a virtue to its master but a vice to its slaves.