Top 80 Rivers Solomon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Dear Sirs,” Flick began before loudly inhaling, “On account of there being no heat down here in account of the being no electricity on account of the brand-new energy rations so thoughtfully and nobly and honorably imposed on the steerage decks by Sovereign Nicolaeus on account of the blackouts – Aster fell prey to a brief fit of hypothermia-induced delirium de spoke against you in her maddery. She’s healed up now so you don’t have to worry about it happening again.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history.”

52. “It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “It was strange to be having such a conversation with her Amaba, discussing their varied interpretations of the history. What had always seemed certain to Yetu wasn’t so immutable. The living put their own mark on the dead. Goodness, how’d did she missed it?”

53. “It was strange to be having such a conversation with her Amaba, discussing their varied interpretations of the history. What had always seemed certain to Yetu wasn’t so immutable. The living put their own mark on the dead. Goodness, how’d did she missed it?”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend toward it.”

54. “Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend toward it.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Living without detail long-term memories allowed for spontaneity and lack of regret, but after a certain amount of time had passed, they needed more.”

55. “Living without detail long-term memories allowed for spontaneity and lack of regret, but after a certain amount of time had passed, they needed more.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “These didn’t have to be contradictions. She let the multiple truths exist inside her as a way of meditating.”

56. “These didn’t have to be contradictions. She let the multiple truths exist inside her as a way of meditating.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I had a sister named Inertia,“said Metusine. “Died. Ill from the day she was born. Mother thought if she named her that it would keep her alive. Keep her in motion.”

57. “I had a sister named Inertia,“said Metusine. “Died. Ill from the day she was born. Mother thought if she named her that it would keep her alive. Keep her in motion.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “All that was left of a person’s life was recorded on paper, in annals, in almanacs, in the physical items they produced. To end that was to end their history, their present, their future.”

58. “All that was left of a person’s life was recorded on paper, in annals, in almanacs, in the physical items they produced. To end that was to end their history, their present, their future.”

— Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon Quote: “We got a saying here in Tide Wing: Should is for weaklings.”

59. “We got a saying here in Tide Wing: Should is for weaklings.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Everything burns up some time or another, even God Herself. That’s how She made the Heavens. She a phoenix. Like me.”

60. “Everything burns up some time or another, even God Herself. That’s how She made the Heavens. She a phoenix. Like me.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “There was no talking Ollie and her ilk into believing Vern and her ilk were actually people. They were collateral damage in a useless battle waged to attain more power.”

61. “There was no talking Ollie and her ilk into believing Vern and her ilk were actually people. They were collateral damage in a useless battle waged to attain more power.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “When not properly fortified, a legacy is no more enduring than a wisp of plankton.”

62. “When not properly fortified, a legacy is no more enduring than a wisp of plankton.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “There was no sense mourning that which no longer nourished.”

63. “There was no sense mourning that which no longer nourished.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don’t want to be scrutable.”

64. “People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don’t want to be scrutable.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Nothing is more sad than a person who believes in something that’s so clearly not true.”

65. “Nothing is more sad than a person who believes in something that’s so clearly not true.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I’m not maternal but that doesn’t mean I don’t love. I love Aster. I love all the girls and women I look after. It is hard to be in somebody’s presence for so long and not develop something like love.”

66. “I’m not maternal but that doesn’t mean I don’t love. I love Aster. I love all the girls and women I look after. It is hard to be in somebody’s presence for so long and not develop something like love.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?”

67. “Are you now so deluded you think you exist outside the category of everything?”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “They say there’s nothing like watching a child’s face light up as they learn something new, but the folks who say that is lying. Children are fine enough, just not my favorite.”

68. “They say there’s nothing like watching a child’s face light up as they learn something new, but the folks who say that is lying. Children are fine enough, just not my favorite.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “You Lived. You did what you needed to do to make sure you lived. Our survival honors ancestors more than any tradition.”

69. “You Lived. You did what you needed to do to make sure you lived. Our survival honors ancestors more than any tradition.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “How come white folks were always telling Black people to get over slavery because it was 150 or so years ago but they couldn’t get over their Christ who died 1,830 years before that?”

70. “How come white folks were always telling Black people to get over slavery because it was 150 or so years ago but they couldn’t get over their Christ who died 1,830 years before that?”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I don’t have time to nurse an acquaintance,” she continued, “especially not one as old as ours. An acquaintance this old that has never bloomed into friendship never will, and it’s hardly worth the upkeep and maintenance required.”

71. “I don’t have time to nurse an acquaintance,” she continued, “especially not one as old as ours. An acquaintance this old that has never bloomed into friendship never will, and it’s hardly worth the upkeep and maintenance required.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “The audiobook that you are currently listening to and are likely upset that you listened to too quickly. Were you at double speed? I know you were.”

72. “The audiobook that you are currently listening to and are likely upset that you listened to too quickly. Were you at double speed? I know you were.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I’m not the maternal type. Lullabies bore me. The idea of a child hanging off my breast, using me for sustenance, makes me very angry for some reason. Probably because I am always angry about everything. I am like a gramophone and the volume’s too loud, and you can’t find the off button, and all you can do is cover your ears until the end of the record.”

73. “I’m not the maternal type. Lullabies bore me. The idea of a child hanging off my breast, using me for sustenance, makes me very angry for some reason. Probably because I am always angry about everything. I am like a gramophone and the volume’s too loud, and you can’t find the off button, and all you can do is cover your ears until the end of the record.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource.”

74. “Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I like the woods,” she said. “In them, the possibilities seem endless. They are where wild things are, and I like to think the wild always wins. In the woods, it doesn’t matter that there is no patch of earth that has not known bone, known blood, known rot. It feeds from that. It grows the trees. The mushrooms. It turns sorrows into flowers.”

75. “I like the woods,” she said. “In them, the possibilities seem endless. They are where wild things are, and I like to think the wild always wins. In the woods, it doesn’t matter that there is no patch of earth that has not known bone, known blood, known rot. It feeds from that. It grows the trees. The mushrooms. It turns sorrows into flowers.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it.”

76. “History wanted to be remembered. Evidence hated having to live in dark, hidden places and devoted itself to resurfacing. Truth was messy. The natural order of an entropic universe was to tend to it.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “It was flattering to be thought of in those terms. As similar. As sharing something in common with not just one other, but a whole us. Since she was fourteen, she’d always been marked as different.”

77. “It was flattering to be thought of in those terms. As similar. As sharing something in common with not just one other, but a whole us. Since she was fourteen, she’d always been marked as different.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “This was always the case when people asked if you knew what something meant. They didn’t want you to know it. They wanted to be able to explain it themselves, to prove themselves bearers of esoteric knowledge.”

78. “This was always the case when people asked if you knew what something meant. They didn’t want you to know it. They wanted to be able to explain it themselves, to prove themselves bearers of esoteric knowledge.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Wife, I require supper. I am hungry, as the mental effort required to digest politics is quite taxing. You would not understand.”

79. “Wife, I require supper. I am hungry, as the mental effort required to digest politics is quite taxing. You would not understand.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Loving, worshipping, and bowing down to folks who harmed you was written into the genes of all animal creatures. To be alive meant to lust after connection, and better to have one with the enemy than with no one at all. A baby’s fingers and mouth grasp on instinct.”

80. “Loving, worshipping, and bowing down to folks who harmed you was written into the genes of all animal creatures. To be alive meant to lust after connection, and better to have one with the enemy than with no one at all. A baby’s fingers and mouth grasp on instinct.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “She didn’t need much. Didn’t need to be adored and loved and called nice things. All she wished for was perfunctory respect paid to the fact that she was, indeed, alive. Real, breathing, thinking, movable parts and all.”

81. “She didn’t need much. Didn’t need to be adored and loved and called nice things. All she wished for was perfunctory respect paid to the fact that she was, indeed, alive. Real, breathing, thinking, movable parts and all.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “I am the only one who gets to decide what is in my best interest. Not you, Theo. The fact that you have been given arbitrary power over me does not mean that you should exert that power when it suits you.”

82. “I am the only one who gets to decide what is in my best interest. Not you, Theo. The fact that you have been given arbitrary power over me does not mean that you should exert that power when it suits you.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “Aster pulled her feet up onto the stool she was sitting on so that her whole body was scrunched into a ball. “I see,” she said. She’d thought she’d trained her mind out of its predisposition toward excessive literalism, but there it was, persistent as ever, making a fool of her.”

83. “Aster pulled her feet up onto the stool she was sitting on so that her whole body was scrunched into a ball. “I see,” she said. She’d thought she’d trained her mind out of its predisposition toward excessive literalism, but there it was, persistent as ever, making a fool of her.”

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Rivers Solomon Quote: “To everyone I will ever be, and ever was.”

84. “To everyone I will ever be, and ever was.”

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