10 Quotes & Sayings By Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer is a novelist, essayist, and game designer. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan and is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of the critically acclaimed "Kingmaker" trilogy, "The Mirror Empire," and more than 60 short stories and essays. Her first novel, "The Will to Battle: How the Brave Took Down Aaron Burr, John C Read more

Calhoun, and the Nation's First Civil War," was published this year by Tor Books. Co-founder of the Palmer Report, she writes about science fiction and fantasy as well as about literature and history.

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly...
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Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you? Ada Palmer
It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start...
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It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark. Ada Palmer
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The sensayer frowned. “You’re saying you discuss theology while having sex.”“ For beginners it’s before and after mostly, managing it during sex takes skill and concentration. Ada Palmer
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We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes. Ada Palmer
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Carlyle had come fluttering to the flame, lured by the false invitation Dominic had sent in Eloise's name and lured, too, by Eloise's conclusion that J.E.D.D. Mason was something not unlike a miracle. How confident the cousin was that in this golden age of peace and ever watching trackers, a virgin with a bag of gold could walk across this earth without danger. Our modern moths have bounced so many times off light bulbs they aren't prepared for torches and forget that wings can burn. . Ada Palmer
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I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within. Ada Palmer
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Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world’s Mom she said, “Sure. Ada Palmer
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I don’t like boys.” I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentlemen of both sexes. Ada Palmer
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One straying angel won’t make God tremble. Ada Palmer