Top 90 Erika Johansen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.”

— Erika Johansen

2. “Fortune favors the bold, history tells us. Therefore, it behooves us to be as bold as possible.”

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3. “Selfishness and self-destruction, riding hand in hand, as they so often did.”

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4. “Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people.”

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5. “Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.”

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6. “The mistake of utopia is to assume that all will be perfect. Perfection may be the definition, but we are human, and even into uopia we bring our own pain, error, jealousy, grief. We cannot relinquish out faults, even in the hope of Paradise, so to plan a new society without taking human nature into account is to doom that society to failure.”

— Erika Johansen

7. “I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.”

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8. “The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they’re just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.”

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9. “Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.”

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10. “Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine?”

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11. “Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.”

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12. “Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.”

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13. “There’s a better world out there, so close we can almost touch it.”

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14. “There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own.”

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15. “You are special, everyone is special. But you are not better. All are valuable.”

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16. “You think I don’t care about my people, but I do... – The Red Queen.”

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17. “Such a statement would be blasphemous, Majesty,” the Holy Father replied, his tone gently reproving. “No man can speak for God.”

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18. “Everyone dies eventually. I think it’s better to die clean.”

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19. “When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.”

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20. “Majesty. The word seemed to ripple through her. “I haven’t been crowned, Lazarus.” “No matter, Lady. I see the queenship in you, and I never saw it in your mother, not one day of her life.”

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21. “Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords;.”

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22. “Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before.”

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23. “I missed you, Lazarus. More than I missed the sunlight, even.”

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24. “I know all about the wildness of youth, believe me. But regret has a terrible ability to follow you, long after youth has vanished.”

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25. “They had fought and starved and even died in pursuit of mankind’s oldest dream, but they hadn’t known that Tear’s vision was flawed. Too easy. Utopia was not the clean slate Tear had imagined, but an evolution. Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It would take generations, countless generations perhaps, but –.”

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26. “Her old appearance had been genuine, and had gained her nothing. But her new appearance was worse, hollow and false, and anything that she gained by it would carry that falsity like a disease.”

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27. “An upset stomach was a small price to pay for fiction made real.”

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28. “She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain.”

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29. “Once in a while, usually when Ewen wasn’t even trying, he would solve a mystery, and that was a great and extraordinary feeling, the way he imagined birds would feel as they swooped across the sky.”

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30. “I put my trust in fiction.”

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31. “Only a fool blames the dealer.”

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32. “Pain only disables the weak.”

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33. “They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.”

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34. “Names made a thing real.”

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35. “This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to anything they want, anything they can grab.”

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36. “Tell me, Mrs. Mayhew, have you ever dreamed of a better world?” “Who hasn’t?” “Anyone who profits by keeping the world as it is.”

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37. “Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.”

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38. “Utopia was not the clean slate Tear had imagined, but an evolution. Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It would take generations, countless generations perhaps, but – “We could get there,” Kelsea murmured. “And even if not, we should always be growing closer.”

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39. “Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you’re just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see.”

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40. “It’s all right lady,” Pen murmured. “I won’t let you fall.”

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41. “One night she’d stayed up until dawn reading a particularly long novel, and she had been allowed to skip her chores and sleep away most of the next day.”

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42. “Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left.”

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43. “She did not take offense; adults lied all the time, their reasons often as silly as those of children.”

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44. “It’s a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it.”

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45. “Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It.”

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46. “When was the last time he’d actually opened those curtains? Years, it had to be years. Sunlight washed the room, turning it white instead of grey, revealing cracks that had never been repaired; wine and food stains on the carpets; even a jack of diamonds that lay alone in the corner, like a raft set adrift on God’s Ocean.”

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47. “We don’t always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done.”

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48. “I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy.”

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49. “I am the Queen of the Tearling! Open the cages! – Kelsea.”

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50. “They’re good, these stories,” Mace continued, his cheeks stained with light color. “They teach the pain of others.” “Empathy. Carlin always said it was the great value of fiction, to put us inside the minds of strangers.”

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