Top 40 S.J. Kincaid Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Yes, I’m a hypocrite. It doesn’t change anything.”

— S.J. Kincaid

2. “Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.”

— S.J. Kincaid

3. “I would not just disappear into a void as though I’d never existed. I would not accept that I was less than these people just because they’d designed me that way.”

— S.J. Kincaid

4. “Come on, Beamer! I beheaded you for your own good.”

— S.J. Kincaid

5. “A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for.”

— S.J. Kincaid

6. “Faith can inspire greatness, but it can be used to justify breathtaking cruelties.”

— S.J. Kincaid

7. “There’s not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along even if they hated the very idea of it.”

— S.J. Kincaid

8. “It’s terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.”

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9. “We are all of us bust stardust shaped into conscious being.”

— S.J. Kincaid

10. “I do. I love you, Tyrus.”

— S.J. Kincaid

11. “He felt like anything was possible around her, like his life meant more, like he meant more.”

— S.J. Kincaid

12. “That was when I realized for the first time that Sidonia Impyrean – meek, fearful, shy, and gentle – could be indomitable.”

— S.J. Kincaid

13. “I know this is asking a lot, but try to stop humiliating yourselves.”

— S.J. Kincaid

14. “Son, you are now a man,’ then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.”

— S.J. Kincaid

15. “Ow, that hurts! It hurts like being in Connecticut!”

— S.J. Kincaid

16. “Have you ever observed a tiger? A true breed like the ones in the Chrysanthemum? Not those kittenish sorts like those in our cloisters. They’re all muscle and sinew, with jaws powerful enough to break the strongest man, yet if you see them stalk prey, if you see them hunt- the sheer strength gives them more grace than the most refined of delicate creatures. That’s Nemesis.”

— S.J. Kincaid

17. “The Emperor wishes me to send my innocent little lamb to the slaughter. No. Instead, I’ll send him my anaconda.”

— S.J. Kincaid

18. “Oh, and I died horribly at your hands. Gruesome murder is always a foundation for a beautiful friendship!”

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19. “Having a heart that burned with emotion meant having a flame that could be doused in an instant by forces you could not fight, perils you could not see. To care was to be helpless in the worst possible way.”

— S.J. Kincaid

20. “Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.”

— S.J. Kincaid

21. “Sorry, Tim,” Yuri said, regret in his voice. “Normally I would not push you around, but I must because you have become such a pansy.”

— S.J. Kincaid

22. “I had braced myself for imminent death, and there you exploded upon us like some avenging angel. I have grown used to the idea that human beings die or they betray and I could only rely on myself, but that’s not true anymore. I feel I can trust you. That may seem so small an admission, but from me, it is the greatest compliment I can ever give.”

— S.J. Kincaid

23. “Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting – but we also would float.”

— S.J. Kincaid

24. “You are brave and honorable and strong, and you are the only one who can see me as I am.”

— S.J. Kincaid

25. “People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn’t believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human?”

— S.J. Kincaid

26. “Yet her feelings for me mattered less to me than my feelings for her. For.”

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27. “Genghises. Large, angry Genghises.”

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28. “If he was her murderer, I had a lifetime to figure it out. I could avenge her tomorrow if I learned he’d done it. I could avenge her in ten years if I learned in ten years, and I’d have ten beautiful years before that. I would always mourn Sidonia, but I had survived this loss once and I could survive it again.”

— S.J. Kincaid

29. “I want your soul. I’ve already lost mine. Join me in a beautiful, shared damnation-and this entire galaxy will fall prostrate at our feet.”

— S.J. Kincaid

30. “How to salvage a dream, when the dreamer himself had been destroyed?”

— S.J. Kincaid

31. “Artwork is the very expression of the human soul. That is the power in it, Nemesis. That’s the reason every petty tyrant seeks to censor, control, shame, or dictate to artists. If you can control them, you can control the ideas of the human soul.”

— S.J. Kincaid

32. “I saw love on his face. It was real. A villain could love. He loved me. But love was no reason, no justification, no excuse.”

— S.J. Kincaid

33. “So I gazed out at the pitch black of hyperspace and envisioned those arcs of history, and hoped upon all the stars that we were in the right place, at the right time, for fortune to favor us.”

— S.J. Kincaid

34. “You’re in my blood. We could be parted for centuries and I’ll always recognize you.”

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35. “Everyone wishes someone would come and save them, and no one ever does.”

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36. “I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.”

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37. “I would have desired nothing more than a life with you, but we were not fated to be.”

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38. “He forced away his doubts. They did not return until the worst way doubts can come-far too late.”

— S.J. Kincaid

39. “Perhaps there was a fundamental evil in turning your back to a situation when you still had the power to change it.”

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40. “Their ringleader had declared me only a girl – and so that was what they saw me now. That was their fatal mistake.”

— S.J. Kincaid