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“I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker

“But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.”
― Diane Duane, A Wizard Alone

“Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone."
Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist.”
― Diane Duane, Wizards at War

“Where's my bed?!" Dairine shrieked.
"It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won't find it if you look all day-which you're not going to have time to do, becaus you'll be in school.”
― Diane Duane, A Wizard Alone

“Morals were nothing but things to be manipulated with. They were tools you could use against others, and weapons others could use against you.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“In a weird, twisted way, Nita almost felt like Kovit’s and her stories were opposite facets on the same diamond. Different, sure, but similar in some fundamental ways. It made Nita feel . . . weird. Squiggly, not-quite empathy, but sort of fear-empathy . . . something. Nita couldn’t put it into words.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“Kit," said a female voice, "what's wrong with the fridge? All the food's gone. No, wait, there's a really ugly alien in here disguised as a leaky lettuce. Hey, I guess I shouldn't be rude to it; it's a visitor. Welcome to our planet, Mr. Alien!"
This was followed by some muffled remark that Nita couldn't make out, possibly something Kit was saying. A moment later, Kit's sister Carmela's voice came out of Nita's refrigerator again. "Hola, Nita, are your phone bills getting too big? This is a weird way to deal with it...”
― Diane Duane, Wizard's Holiday

“I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I have to give her what you did, don't I?" she said. "Enough of my personal information for Aurilelde to link to her own... so that the congruency between us is complete, and all this works out the way it should..."
Kit didn't say anything.
...But why wouldn't I? Nita thought. To make all this come out all right. She nodded to Irina. Irina nodded back, turned away.
And only then did it occur to Nita, with a shock, that this would mean it hadn't been Aurilelde who Kit had been so attracted to. It was her...”
― Diane Duane, A Wizard of Mars

“I made some mistakes. If I had a chance to do it over, knowing what I know now, I'd change some of my plans," Nita admitted, the words sticking a little in her throat. "But I don't know that I regret the choices I made. They seemed right at the time, and I learned a lot from them."
•pg.80 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“I can't promise I won't make mistakes again. I can't promise I won't freak out when you do something that scares me. I'm not perfect. But I can promise I'll always try, and I'll always be on your side.â€�
•pg.381 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“She didn't ask herself what could have been, because Kovit was right. Asking what-ifs about people stole their agency for the choices they made in this life. But what could be. That was another question."
•pg.89 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“The world isn't fair, Kovit." Nita pressed her forehead to his. "Maybe you do deserve to die. Maybe you're irredeemably evil. But I don't care, and neither does the world. And God damn it, I'm not going to let INHUP take you from me."
•pg.170 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“So you see, Nita, to some extent, all our interactions are manipulations of some sort or another. We're all playing a part, and how we deal with people is a trick to show them what part we want them to think we're playing."
•pg.184 - Fabricio”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“But a dark, frightened part of her whispered that the most violent hate is born from the tightest love. And betrayal."
•pg.213 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“Sometimes freedom comes at an ugly price."
•pg.246 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“Looking at Fabricio meant facing her own part in his screams. It meant facing that she didn't actually feel bad about what she did.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“Every time someone thinks about me and imagines who I'd be in another life, they take away the choices I've made in this life. They make it seem like I was crammed into a life I didn't want.â€� He closed his eyes. “They take away my power in my own life. Build me up in their minds into a person I'm not. How is that any different than the people who only see me as a tool or a monster?â€� - Kovit

“I suppose it's not. Just a different side of one-dimensional.� - Nita
•pg.181 - Kovit, Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“Sometimes she could see the monster inside him. And sometimes he made her see the monster inside herself.â€�
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― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“No one is perfect. No one is exactly who you want them to be. There is something in every person, even your closest friend, that you don't like.â€�
•pg.374 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“You've picked the path you want. And I will always respect that. It's your path to walk, not mine to criticize.â€�
•pg.381 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“He swallowed heavily, and just under the surface, that broken, shattered look lurked, trying to press through his thin veneer of composure. But now she could see it wasn't a fatal break, it was the kind of break that was in her own soul too. The kind of break that stemmed from too much loss and betrayal, and you could either let the world break you or you could storm through the world and fill the cracks with the blood of those who'd hurt you until you were a semblance of whole again. Maybe not the same person, but still you, still alive, still moving forward on your own."
•pg.94-95 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“She'd been scared Kovit would crumble, and while his cracks were large, she trusted he would pick himself up and sharpen the broken edges into weapons."
•pg.95 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“Sometimes, she felt like both of them were damned no matter what they did, good or bad. That any choice they made led to ruin. But she couldn't let herself think that way. There's always a way to victory. Always a path to survival. Maybe it was ugly and painted in blood and grief, but it was there. She believed it. She had to believe it."
•pg.199 - Nita's thoughts”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, When Villains Rise

“Damn it, Nita. If you fuck this up because of such a stupid mistake, you'll never live it down. No shit, because I'll never live.â€�
•pg.230 - Nita's inner monologue”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“But I can't pick and choose what aspects of a person I want and make a new person for myself. That's not how it works.â€�
•pg.381 - Nita”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“NO!" came his scream from beyond the wall of trees, hating, raging, desperate. But Nita felt no fear. It was as it had been in the beginning; all his no's had never been able to stand against life's I Am.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard