The Edinburgh Dead Quotes

“But past service counted for little these days. The world, and those who governed it, moved too quickly to be carrying such burdens as memory and gratitude.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“I've not treated you well," Quire murmured, laying a soft kiss on Cath's brow one night in the bed. "You'd no need to take me in here. I've not earned it."
"No, but I'm a saint," Cath whispered.
She stroked his neck.
"You're a rare breed, then," Quire smiled.
"We all are, aren't we? There's not a one of us so alike to another to be called the same. Not when you look proper close."
"Maybe that's true.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“Can we call you a believer yet, then?"
"Call me what you like," Quire sniffed. "I stopped knowing what to believe in a while back. I'm playing the game by the rules my enemies have set for the next wee while, that's all.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“There's more things in the world that are old and deep than these men of philosophy and science we're infested with these days can admit of. Forgotten, maybe, by most; not the same as being gone.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“Not a cave, not quite; a tomb. Quire felt himself to be disturbing a place that had been asleep for a long time.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“I rather fancy, if you will forgive me an aphorism, that we live in not the Age of Reason, as so many proclaim, but in that of Ignorance; for there is nothing reason so readily proclaims to the attentive mind as the extent of our ignorance. It transforms what were once mysteries, for ever inaccessible to human comprehension, into merely phenomena we have not yet explained, and thereby at once increases what we know and what we do not.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead