“Bridget blinked once. “Books do not have souls, sir.” “Those who write them do,” Ferus said. “They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature.” He sniffed. “Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.” “You believe that the library has a soul,” Bridget said carefully. “I do not believe it, young lady,” Ferus said rather stiffly. “I know it.”
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
“I am cat,” Rowl said smugly, “which means I have made better use of my time.”
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
“The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn,” Esterbrook said. “In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We’re having a symbolic battle, its outcome decided by simple numbers. It saves us time and no end of trouble counting actual bodies—but don’t mistake it for anything but ritualized violence. And every few years, if the person we elected doesn’t do the job we wanted, we vote him out of office—we symbolically behead him and replace him with someone else. Again, without the actual pain and bloodshed, but acting out the ritual of violence nonetheless. It’s actually a very practical way of getting things done.”
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
“i want to be
in love with you
the same way
i am in
love with the moon
with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
―
in love with you
the same way
i am in
love with the moon
with the light
shining
out of its soul.”
―
“It's a tradition,” Grimm said. “Were traditions rational, they’d be procedures.”
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
― The Aeronaut's Windlass
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