Zitate und Sprüche aus The Nevers

Only a blind man measures the length of a blade by how much is in his belly.

Penance Adair: "I'm not confident in my curtsying."
Amalia True: "I'm not confident in my breathing."
Penance Adair: "Oh, I wasn't planning to breathe. I think it's considered rude."

Lucy Best: "My mum used to say, if you can look a man in the eye, you can stab him in it."
Amalia True: "Smart woman."

Penance Adair: "Mrs. True."
Amalia True: "Miss Adair."
Penance Adair: "You look very fine."
Amalia True: "I think so too."

Prince Albrecht: "It's just a woman."
Lord Broughton: "Five men murdered. I'd say she's more than that."

We have enemies we don't know about yet.

She does speak English. But not with her mouth.

Flirt with the ugly one! It creates an unexpected balance.

Neither right nor wrong. Being Touched is not a defect of character.

Amalia: "We don't consider ourselves afflicted."
Lord Massen: "Perhaps some women are more fortunate in the nature of their ailment than others."
Amalia: "That's true, but more suffer from society's perception than their own debilitation."

Penance Adair: "Does it hurt?"
Amalia True: "Itches."
Penance Adair: "That's much worse."

We are the first generation accustomed to the impossible. What women are appalled by today, they will accept tomorrow, and demand the day after that. And the immigrant. And the deviant. That is the power being wielded, and not by us. The blade is in, gentlemen. We need to know whose hand is on the hilt.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.