Lapidary Quotes

“Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.”
― China Miéville, Kraken