Kindle Notes & Highlights
I make suggestions that are imminently sensible that no rational person could argue with."
A cake is more than butter and sugar and flour. When you bake them they become something else. A cake is a cake, as a mouse is a mouse and a door is a door. You can't unmake it and get sugar, butter and flour back. It's made of cake."
I had been trying to unravel the door into a lock, wood, nails, handle and everything else that went into it, instead of treating it like a door that was either locked or open.
I recalled that I had been told once that mirrors were the domain of the father of lies, Satan himself.
The Untainted would no more accept the sharing of bloodlines with humans than humanity could accept the sharing of their bloodlines with animals.
Feed one end and wipe the other;
You're not old. You've just been around for a long time."
As soon as the money dries up they’ll move the jobs out to India or somewhere.”
The women of this town are the life-blood. When you never know if the men are coming back, they’ve had to be. Once the women start leaving, it’s the beginning of the end.”
It’s the way it’s been done since before there were towns or cities, before kings or queens. First the dogs, the guardians of the settlement. Then the old people, the experience, the knowledge. Next the children, the hope for the future, any chance of reprieve. Finally the adults, until there’s only one left to carry the story. He’ll make them run until they can’t run any further, until their heart bursts and their bones are broken, until there’s just enough life left to tell the tale.
“The Warders are called in when it’s messy, when there is no clear solution, or when there are too many solutions, all competing for attention. We are needed when there is no right, only a choice between multiple wrongs, where there is no justice, merely closure. We are called to act when no-one else will, when it’s already too late.
