Mortal Engines Quotes

“I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.”
― Phillip Reeve, A Web of Air / Scrivener's Moon / Fever Crumb

“Sorry about the blood.”
― Mortal Engines

“I look at her sometimes and almost wish I hadn't shot her mum”
― Mortal Engines

“Who cares if people are dying of heatstroke down and then the Nether Burrows”
― Mortal Engines

“You can't expect them to wear a big sandwich board with spy on it or a special spying hat.”
― Mortal Engines

“You have to take the long view, Tom. It isn't only Traction Cities which poison the air and tear up the earth. All cities do that, static or mobile. It's human beings that are the problem. Everything that they do pollutes and destroys.”
― Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain