Quotes from book
Orphans of Chaos

Name: Orphans of Chaos
Author: John C. Wright

Orphans of Chaos is a 2005 science fantasy novel by John C. Wright. It is the first volume of the Orphans of Chaos trilogy that continues with the novels Fugitives of Chaos and Titans of Chaos .

““What can you do?”
“I can bring you in dream to one who dreams of you.”
“Will that help me?”
“No. But you will come, because you will hope that it will.””

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 23, “Dreams and Desires” Section 1 (p. 305)

“You all think I am a coward, when all I am is polite.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 5, “To Walk with Owls” Section 3 (p. 86)

“This thought had led to the fear that I might pick the wrong God to pray to. I thought that, because praying to the wrong God was expressly a sin, and because a merciful God might forgive me for forgetting to pray, it therefore followed that, even without knowing which one was the right one, my best chances lay in staying quiet and hoping for the best. That strategy worked in class when I didn’t know the answer, so I supposed it might work in the arena of theology, also.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 3, “The First of the Secrets” Section 8 (p. 48)

“I will grant you three wishes, but do not ask for immortality without asking for eternal youth.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 9, “Otherspace” Section 5 (p. 138)

“The Maiden had been abducted by the Unseen One, and raped. When the crime of the Unseen One finally came to light, instead of punishing his brother, Lord Terminus (who feared him) gave him the Maiden as his wife.
We have never forgiven Lord Terminus his crime, this cynical and smirking act of corruption. What kind of punishment is it to a rapist, to have the victim of his outrages be given to him in bounds of matrimony, his victim to be his, forever after? Lord Terminus decreed that when a husband takes a wife by violence, it is not rape, but holy matrimony; honor is satisfied once the wedding is performed.
Honor was satisfied, but we were not satisfied.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 22, “Tales of the Demiurge” Section 3 (p. 293; cf. Deuteronomy 22.28-29 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22%3A28-29&version=KJV)

“Everyone loses in war, even the winners.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 7, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” Section 2 (p. 109)

“Yes, I prayed. Why not? The advantage of being an agnostic over being an atheist is that I always had the possibility of being wrong, and could still entertain the hope that the universe was better organized than it appeared to be.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 21, “The Seventh Day” Section 2 (p. 277)

“It seemed even the smallest exercise of arbitrary authority could go to one’s head like wine. I told myself to remember this when I was older.”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 4, “Headmaster Boggin” Section 1 (p. 64)

“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”

John C. Wright book Orphans of Chaos

“They hatch bad luck.”
Source: Orphans of Chaos (2005), Chapter 5, “To Walk with Owls” Section 3 (p. 86)