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"Religions are an expression of hope."

'Clubs snorted. Then he raised his cup. "To the Survivor," he said. "May he be damned for knowing us better than we knew ourselves."'

Best moment of the book so far!

"He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew."

"Time may be our friend now but it will turn on us eventually."

"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

"Time lost meaning: repetition stole it away."

"The fight matters. But in the end it is never truly won or lost, and victory lies in discovering that we are bigger than it is."
Wow!

I certainly miss Keot!

"The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know."

"He forced himself to smile - not out of pleasure, and not out of satisfaction. He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler - and to himself - that he wasn't beaten."

"I am a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires."

"Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified."

"In fact, manipulation is the core of social interaction."

"I have found that in Allomancy and Life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful."

"Sometimes, I worry that I am not the hero which everyone thinks I am."
What an opening! In for a joy ride!

"I felt the years were passing by, had passed by, like waves on a receding tide, leaving me washed up like a bit of flotsam on a lonely beach."

"As Hampshire's captain, Colin Ingle by-MacKenzie laid down one stern rule : all players should be in bed before breakfast on match days. " Oh! British Humor!

'Oh Go, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.' - Sir Alec Douglas-Home in Prayer of a Cricketer's Wife

"Extinction is an abstract concept. Death is personal. It's a survival mechanism on the emotional front - who can weep for a lifetime?"

"Religion has scarred India more deeply than anything else. Cricket is the balm that heals. Cricket is our anti-religion, our most precious, deeply secular institution.'"

'Cricket's a funny game. Once it's got you, it's never going to let you go.'

'A funny month, October, ' he mused. 'It's when the true cricket fan realises his wife left in May.'

"According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won’t matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it."

"There are some lessons that must be written in scars."

"Every war is only a prelude to talk."

"Amazing how quickly the unbearable becomes banal."

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

"Clash and clatter, scrape and rattle, scream and hiss, thump, crack, men swearing and bellowing like animals at the slaughterhouse." *gulp*

‘Not killing don’t tend to weigh as heavy on my conscience as the alternative.'
Man! I am starting to respect Craw now.

"Strange thing, that – the fewer years you have to lose the more you fear the losing of ’em. Maybe a man just gets a stock of courage when he’s born, and wears it down with each scrape he gets into."