Quotes About Legacy

But the personal feeling is nearer with most of us than the tenderest feeling for another; and my family had been so accustomed to the idea of my living on and on in that room, that while my heart was eating itself, their love for me was consoled, and at last the evil grew scarcely perceptible. It was no want of love in them, and quite natural in itself: we all get used to the thought of a tomb; and I was buried, that was the whole.

The greenhouse—distant cousin, Ida, reportedly something of a botanist. The bed where we conceived Lily: Great-great-great-great-Aunt Minerva. Aunt Augustine's dish set isn't just an heirloom—it really is Aunt Augustine.

She was Alasdair Conn's oldest daughter, the Princess of the Jacob's Ladder. She was both fierce and beautiful, and why she'd chosen him, he'd never know.

My moment of infamy was a long time ago.

No. He would. He would not repudiate Kit, on his deathbed for any reason.

My people have a saying that every civilization is founded in a terrible crime.

I was starting to realizee that we, all of us-Synarche, pirates, Jothari, even the Ativahikas-were living in the ruins of the Koregoi's enormous and shadowy house.

The old ways-the old respect might no longer be enforced with terror, but enough of it lingered that Dust was no entirely bereft of hope for the future of Engine and the Conn family. They might have grown soft, but they had not entirely fallen apart.

Surely her sacrifice, my sacrifice, could not be in vain.

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

Well, Haimey Dz, you always wanted to make a legend for yourself. Here's your chance at becoming a really spectacular example of a cautionary tale!

Tristen could imagine enjoying himself in a role as figurehead, surrounded by eager and talented young persons who did all the hard work while he basked in reflected-and retrospective glory.

I am, after all a necromancer. And they shall know you by your trail of dead, Perceval Conn.

Richard is made in the image of a physicist dead since the previous century.

Fear was not a familiar sensation, and this fear-stranger-fear of the unknown-even less so. Among the legacies of atavism corrected by rightminding was the overactive fear response of the human amygdala to anything foreign or strange.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past?

We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest.

all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.

Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.

There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.

Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.