Inkdeath Trilogy Quotes & Sayings

What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording? — Douglas Adams

True friendship is never serene. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. — David Mitchell

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice. — Edward W. Said

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth. — John Knox

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. — Clifton Daniel

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more. — David Limbaugh

He broke off, and she fancied that he looked sad. She could not be sure, for the Machine did not transmit nuances of expression. It only gave a general idea of people- an idea that was good enough for all practical purposes, Vashti thought.
The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufactures of artificial fruit. Something "good enough" had long since been accepted by our race. — E. M. Forster

I never told her, but the Queen of Hearts charm always reminded me of her, even when she was alive. The way that all ways were Lillian's ways, and how in the story the queen is unpredictable and kind of scary, but even when she throws a tantrum or threatens to cut off Alice's head, she never really means it. — Brenna Yovanoff