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Top 25 Katherine Addison Quotes (2024 Update)

Katherine Addison Quote: “She would not be what she is if she had ever had something given her that was a burden equal to her strength.”

1. “She would not be what she is if she had ever had something given her that was a burden equal to her strength.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “The grief of the stones was grief for every man killed in the building of the wall, for every man who died defending or attacking, for every man executed by being thrown off the battlements. “But those are our worst criminals!” the king protests, and the young man says, “That doesn’t matter to the stones.”

2. “The grief of the stones was grief for every man killed in the building of the wall, for every man who died defending or attacking, for every man executed by being thrown off the battlements. “But those are our worst criminals!” the king protests, and the young man says, “That doesn’t matter to the stones.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Birds aren’t actually an awfully good analogy. You’d do better to think of us as bees.” “Bees?” said I, taken aback. “Well, we’ve too many limbs to be mammals,” he said reasonably. “And our social structure is much better represented by a hive than by a warren – or even by a rookery. And bees do sing, in a way.”

3. “Birds aren’t actually an awfully good analogy. You’d do better to think of us as bees.” “Bees?” said I, taken aback. “Well, we’ve too many limbs to be mammals,” he said reasonably. “And our social structure is much better represented by a hive than by a warren – or even by a rookery. And bees do sing, in a way.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “But in grieving for a murderer, thou art not grieving for the monstrous. Thou grievest for the man who failed to reject the monstrous act.”

4. “But in grieving for a murderer, thou art not grieving for the monstrous. Thou grievest for the man who failed to reject the monstrous act.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “His mother had taught him a prayer that could be used as a mantra: Cstheio Caireizhasan, hear me. Cstheio Caireizhasan, see me. Cstheio Caireizhasan, know me. One did not ask for more than awareness from the Lady of the Stars; hers was the gift of clear sight, not of mercy or protection.”

5. “His mother had taught him a prayer that could be used as a mantra: Cstheio Caireizhasan, hear me. Cstheio Caireizhasan, see me. Cstheio Caireizhasan, know me. One did not ask for more than awareness from the Lady of the Stars; hers was the gift of clear sight, not of mercy or protection.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I admit to a fondness for boring stories.”

6. “I admit to a fondness for boring stories.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses.”

7. “I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I drank my tea and finished my scone and acknowledged that I did not know how to solve any of my problems.”

8. “I drank my tea and finished my scone and acknowledged that I did not know how to solve any of my problems.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “You are very decisive in your indecision.”

9. “You are very decisive in your indecision.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Nothing can make death easier,” Cala said, “but silence can make it harder.”

10. “Nothing can make death easier,” Cala said, “but silence can make it harder.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “They were very good, soft rolls stuffed with ham and tangy white cheese and then heated just enough to make the rolls crispy on the outside and to melt the cheese on the inside.”

11. “They were very good, soft rolls stuffed with ham and tangy white cheese and then heated just enough to make the rolls crispy on the outside and to melt the cheese on the inside.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Study the stars. – M.”

12. “Study the stars. – M.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I love thee still.”

13. “I love thee still.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “We trust the judgment of the Clocksmiths’ Guild. In the end, that is the question on which any decision must be based, for we do not have the knowledge to judge the design ourself – and neither do you.”

14. “We trust the judgment of the Clocksmiths’ Guild. In the end, that is the question on which any decision must be based, for we do not have the knowledge to judge the design ourself – and neither do you.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “He remembered the moment when his thoughts had inverted themselves – that shift from not being able to please everyone to not trying – and the way that change had enabled him to see past the maneuverings and histrionics of the representatives to the deeper structures of the problem; it was the same with the Corazhas.”

15. “He remembered the moment when his thoughts had inverted themselves – that shift from not being able to please everyone to not trying – and the way that change had enabled him to see past the maneuverings and histrionics of the representatives to the deeper structures of the problem; it was the same with the Corazhas.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “He stared at me as if I’d told him I could hear fishes singing.”

16. “He stared at me as if I’d told him I could hear fishes singing.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “The reminder that other lives had tragedies without reference to his own was both salutary and painful.”

17. “The reminder that other lives had tragedies without reference to his own was both salutary and painful.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I went home, shared sardines with the cats that were not mine, meditated, went to bed, and dreamed nothing that I remembered. I woke in the middle of the night, as I sometimes did, and could not remember where I was.”

18. “I went home, shared sardines with the cats that were not mine, meditated, went to bed, and dreamed nothing that I remembered. I woke in the middle of the night, as I sometimes did, and could not remember where I was.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “It was the first time in his life Maia had been surrounded by people who were like him instead of only snow-white elves with their pale eyes, and he missed several names in the effort not to faint or hyperventilate or burst into tears.”

19. “It was the first time in his life Maia had been surrounded by people who were like him instead of only snow-white elves with their pale eyes, and he missed several names in the effort not to faint or hyperventilate or burst into tears.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “And then, just like that, it was decided. Edrehasivar VII had chosen his empress.”

20. “And then, just like that, it was decided. Edrehasivar VII had chosen his empress.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Better to build new bridges, he thought, than to pine after what’s been washed away.”

21. “Better to build new bridges, he thought, than to pine after what’s been washed away.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “She showed me her quilt, scraps of fabric pieced together into the pattern called Valmata’s Return. She was now stitching the top and batting and backing together, overlaying Valmata’s Return with a pattern called Scorpion Dance – appropriate to the story of Valmata, who returned from war and poisoned his father in order to take control of the family estates. They sang the ballad in Lohaiso.”

22. “She showed me her quilt, scraps of fabric pieced together into the pattern called Valmata’s Return. She was now stitching the top and batting and backing together, overlaying Valmata’s Return with a pattern called Scorpion Dance – appropriate to the story of Valmata, who returned from war and poisoned his father in order to take control of the family estates. They sang the ballad in Lohaiso.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I’m not about to punish anyone for being in love.”

23. “I’m not about to punish anyone for being in love.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Dach’osmin Lanthevin said, “It is hard to find occupation when one has been trained for nothing but childbearing and then has no children to bear.”

24. “Dach’osmin Lanthevin said, “It is hard to find occupation when one has been trained for nothing but childbearing and then has no children to bear.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “I went home, shared sardines with the cats that were not mine, meditated, went to bed, and dreamed nothing that I remembered.”

25. “I went home, shared sardines with the cats that were not mine, meditated, went to bed, and dreamed nothing that I remembered.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “Two women, sisters by the look of it, were both reading the same copy of the Herald of Amalo, spread flat on the table between them, one sister reading right side up and one sister reading upside down.”

26. “Two women, sisters by the look of it, were both reading the same copy of the Herald of Amalo, spread flat on the table between them, one sister reading right side up and one sister reading upside down.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “The memories of a thousand separate cruelties mocked him, but no one save Maia himself had ever counted those as wrongs, and it was unjust to have them declared wrongs now, merely because he could.”

27. “The memories of a thousand separate cruelties mocked him, but no one save Maia himself had ever counted those as wrongs, and it was unjust to have them declared wrongs now, merely because he could.”

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Katherine Addison Quote: “And she has always gotten very angry at people who won’t play the roles she puts them in.”

28. “And she has always gotten very angry at people who won’t play the roles she puts them in.”

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