“All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me "Goddess”
― Raising Steam
― Raising Steam
“When they say "my heart skipped a beat," they're full of crap. Really, what they mean is, your heart sort of stutters and thinks about stopping for a second before it remembers that beating is good for it.”
― Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
― Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie
“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”
― Raising Steam
― Raising Steam
“It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.”
― Raising Steam
― Raising Steam
“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation”
― Raising Steam
― Raising Steam
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