Ambelin Kwaymullina Quotes & Sayings

Ember had told me once that she'd known a girl who wanted to die until someone had spoken six words to her that made her decide to live instead. I'd asked what the magic words were, and she said it didn't matter; the point was that no one ever knows when something they say will cause a profound change in somebody else. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

I bared my teeth at him. "There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. There will be nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and no way to stop them from freeing every single Illegal in this centre. And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end. — Ambelin Kwaymullina

I walk among my enemies. But I carry my friends with me. — Ambelin Kwaymullina