Atevi Quotes & Sayings

Trust was a word you couldn't translate. But the atevi had fourteen words for betrayal. — C.J. Cherryh

I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself
(iuJ/iua/ingq — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Say the words, sweetheart, and I'll stop. If not, prepare to have your fucking world rocked. — Nacole Stayton

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to. — William Lashner

Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood - but chances were very good that he wouldn't, couldn't, and never would, unaided by the paidhi, come up with the right forecast of human behavior because he didn't come with the right hardwiring. Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. — C.J. Cherryh

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work. — Pierre-Georges Latecoere

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result. — Stephen R. Covey

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music. — Jerry Reed