The Sea Watch Quotes

“Justice is like some unnatural hybrid flower you people have bred. It will not live long unless you keep it sheltered and warm.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Sea Watch

“It was easier to stand tall if you convinced everyone else to kneel.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Sea Watch

“Mind is the enemy of memory, sometimes. There is a great memory, a memory of thousands of years. It speaks very faintly, so faintly that even Nemoctes’s voice – that we heard just now – would drown it out. There is no other voice, though, when I am here alone, and so, if I listen carefully, I can hear that memory. It is an ancient memory. Our kind are amongst the oldest, the very oldest of them all.’ Some”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Sea Watch

“should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Sea Watch