Nyxia Uprising Quotes

We're not all good," I reply. "And they're not all bad." He lifts his eyebrow. "I suppose that is the simplest truth of all.

Every day I find myself living more and more in the gray. Nothing is easy. Nothing is black-and-white.

History remembers the darkest moments.

Survivors. That's what we are now. And survivors have scars.

Death knocks at our door, and the sound forces all three of them to act on an unspoken promise. It is a contract each of them keeps in the quiet of their own hearts. All three would trade their lives for any of ours.

Is that how things work in your world? You only have to fight if you choose to fight? In our world, the fight comes to you whether you ask for it or not.

Pride roars through me like a river. It rushes over my oldest wounds and washes away the most haunting memories. It sweeps over all the scars that pushed me to leave my family and launch into space. Pride brighter than the sun.

I take courage from both of them. Morning the warrior, Bilal the healer.

I find myself laughing more and more as I walk, though, picturing a whole generation of Imago who think Katsu is the author of the Harry Potter series.

The last thing we need is for someone to survive the apocalypse only to get taken out in a game of pickup football.

Destruction in the right kind of therapy.

The people we love are somewhere else, crossing some other ocean. We'll have no idea how safe they are until we meet them in the middle.

Pride in knowing they will never forget my name. And pride in knowing—even at the end—that I am the one who finished first.

Greenlaw has the Imago dressed in their finest, standing in proper formation. I note their matching necklaces. The same Imago artist who created the mural came up with them. It’s a thin plate of nyxia dangling from an even thinner chain. Every few seconds, the emblem etched on the material changes. She explained that they’ll cycle through for months, flashing the name of every Imago left behind on Magnia. It’s an astonishing tribute.

Mr. Defoe.

Longwei is dead. Craft is dead.

He smiles again. “I have a gift that shouldn’t go to waste. Once it was said I made the best tea in Palestine. Now there is a rumor that it’s the best tea in the galaxy.

I’m still watching when a figure strides through the smoke. “About time you assholes showed up.

I am the quietest thing aboard the ship.

But now that we have stolen their ships and removed their tyrannical leaders and have started our journey home like proper space pirates, I thought it was more than past time to count up our bounty.

The baby will be born in space. When someone pointed that out to Isadora, she lifted a single eyebrow and said, “Good. She’ll always have a fun fact to share on the first day of school.

I was thinking about how satisfied he must have been at the end.” I frown. “Satisfied?” “Think about it. He finished first.

Alex and Anton start planning our future family reunion, and the discussion about the location gets as heated as an Olympics committee. Katsu insists that we already agreed to a sexy party in the middle of the ocean. Noor insists that she’s not attending any party that Katsu calls sexy.

We descend like conquerors.