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The man bound to the bed was brilliant. In fact, Professor Isaac Orion was a genius, a man for whom not knowing was the worst kind of suffering.
“Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé.”
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“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.”
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“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.”
― Elysian Fields
― Elysian Fields
“Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.”
― Elysian Fields
― Elysian Fields
“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”
― The Waking Engine
― The Waking Engine
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