The Tower Quotes

“Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or a woman lost?”
― William Butler Yeats

“Who reigns up high?
A dead man’s sigh
What sleeps below?
A crown of woe
That is the Tower:
Learn and cower.”
– Extract from ‘And So I Dreamt I Was Awake’, Sherehazad the Seer”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“Rooms were set aside for bookbinding and herb mixing and broadsword training and hand-to-hand combat practice. The Sisters were skilled in all known languages, astronomy, the art of poisons, dance, metallurgy, martial arts, decoupage, and the finer points is assassinry.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days’ time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves.”
― Isa Kamari, The Tower

“For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.”
― Isa Kamari, The Tower

“He hadn't set foot in the Tower since his apprenticeship days, but Antain felt it was high time to visit the Sisters, who had been, for him, a sort of short-term family----albeit odd, standoffish, and, admittedly, murderous. Still. Family is family...”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon