Scott Reintgen Quotes

Joy slips through our fingers because we're grasping and reaching for everything else. We're past being broken.

I watch him die and remind myself that kings aren't innocent in war. When you put on the crown and order troops to kill, you invite the judgement of an enemy's sword.

Death knocks at our door, and the sound forces all three of them to act on an unspoken promise. It is a contract each of them keeps in the quiet of their own hearts. All three would trade their lives for any of ours.

Whenever I messed up - and man, I messed up all the time - he wouldn't even talk about the bad thing. He'd just tell me to be good. Like, hey, next time, be good.

She's beautiful the way a mountain is tall. I almost tell her before stopping. You don't need to tell a mountain it's tall. It already knows that.

Destruction in the right kind of therapy.

You will be glad that you are not like them. You'll be glad that you showed mercy to those who did not deserve it. Watching you gives me hope. If we are to send representatives down to a new world, they should not be people without mercy. Babel chose you because you're poor. They thought you would be easy to manipulate. Twice you've proven them wrong. Twice you've set the sword aside when they've asked you to swing it. When you look back, it won't be mercy that you regret.

History remembers the darkest moments.

You're broken," she answers quietly. "The same kind of broken as me.

Pride roars through me like a river. It rushes over my oldest wounds and washes away the most haunting memories. It sweeps over all the scars that pushed me to leave my family and launch into space. Pride brighter than the sun.

I don't have to be perfect. I just have to be better than the other guy.

Mi abuelita always says you get one of two worlds. You either get the world you hope for or the world you fear.

You can't expect to always feel like yourself. Just don't lose who you are. Are you a bad person? Of course not. Does that mean you'll always do the right thing? Of course not. No one's perfect.

The people we love are somewhere else, crossing some other ocean. We'll have no idea how safe they are until we meet them in the middle.

We're not all good," I reply. "And they're not all bad."
He lifts his eyebrow. "I suppose that is the simplest truth of all.

Pops has always told me ignorance is the most dangerous thing in the world. Fools, he used to say, will ignore whispers until they become shouts. And by the time a whisper is a shout, it's usually too late to make a difference.