“Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don’t even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it’s all real here. Here it’s real.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You’re going to get it. You’ll get it how I say. Like I say. When I say, Scribbler. I am Jeramiah Poe. Muse Rider – Diviner of Destinies… and you are my Muse.” ~Jeramiah Poe~”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Stories were fictional in Octava—that was the law.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“I promise to write your story, I’m sorry I stopped. I’ll write you the best story, I-I’ll make you a classic, the most famous ever and you’ll never die!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“The Seven are not traitors. And the Sound Realm has been summoned by Octava’s Queen to help.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You, Jeramiah Poe are the 8th Ark of Octava. You must bring The Seven home and fight the war.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You can manage to break your neck, yes. Stop being a fussy pants and let me help you to the couch.” Kane laughed and skipped ahead. “Fussy pants. She called you a fussy pants.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You broke Octava’s Ancient Code when you entered his story.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“she was this close to getting the guts and becoming the unthinkable and loathsome family enemy—an Independent Author.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“I am created for fiction but I am real. As is Kane. As are all the characters created by Scribblers in the realm of Octava!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Do you have any idea at all about words? The power behind them?”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Not yet. But Mr. Poe is teaching me lots of things. Tonight he’s going to teach me the power of sleep.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Poe recoiled when he put his mouth on her cheek before running back at a break-neck speed, little Isabelle jumping and waving her animated goodbye. Quarks and hadrons, he’d need to cleanse the boy’s mouth.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Because the Independents are sovereign. They don’t belong to Traditional Octava and are not governed by all their laws. They have their own laws.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“The seven Bogs of Octava.” “Seven too? One for each genre Mr. Poe?” “Now you’re catching on. The realms recyclable. The energies of characters go there after their life is over.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“That depends on how well a story’s life is loved by those in the Scribbler’s realm. The more people like it, the longer the story is kept alive. And if you’re really loved, you can become a classic and never die.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“No characters in any story were ever to be harmed within their fictional creations. But everything about the place, the feelings and sounds Poe processed, said that law was being broken.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
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― Jeanette Winterson, quote from The Stone Gods
“You can’t mind these things, you just can’t, for to dislike what makes a person human is to dislike all humans.”
― Daniel Handler, quote from Adverbs
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but a tool of the present, with no integrity whatsoever of its own.”
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