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“I wish Id paid better attention. I didnt yet think of time as finite. I didnt fully appreciate the stories she told me until I became adult, and by then I had to make do with snippets pasted togeth...”
“He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.”
“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These humans are but letters to be inked into histo...”
“Your history is not your future.”
“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”
“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?”
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever saw Germans crying in public, not at the news of a dead loved one or at the sight of their bom...”
“This is Roshana, the last queen of the Amulen Empire, back when my people ruled all the lands from the east to the west. She is something of a legend among us. Every queen aspires to learn from her...”
“Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?”
“You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.”
“This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home”
“The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.”
“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”
“Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.”
“All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.”
“That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what...”
“Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.”
“Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.”
“Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.”
“Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.”
