“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
“The moon shows the truth of things.”
“Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread.”
“But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437”
“Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam”
“Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435”
“Did you finish the key?” I asked him.”
“Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship."
-Deryn Sharp”
“My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.”
“We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on”
“scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy.”
“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”
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