Buried Deep and Other Stories Quotes

“Books don’t have any pretense of living on their own, part of their magic. If you put the book down and go to the other room for a snack, the book will not go on without you; I’ve written these words and other people have edited them and formatted them and put them down on paper, but we’ve come as far as we can go, and the rest of the journey is yours, if you choose to lend them your eyes and your brain to live in for a little while.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“the husband and children she’d never have. She wasn’t too old to have them, but she was, because she had learned too well not to let herself get carried away. She’d never be foolish enough to trust a man with everything that was now hers, everything she’d built with years and drudgery.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“Only to be adored was, in the end, nothing; to be adored by someone worthy, everything.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“a great nonsense, she thought, that any domestic might be sent to Meryton with a note, and she forced to remain indoors, as though she would dissolve in a mild shower for having been born a gentleman’s daughter.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“Such idleness, mingled with such insipidity! I should far rather face a volley of rifle-fire than endure many more nights of like company.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“Imagine if you had to explain how to perform a reference search to someone who had not only never seen a library, but did not understand electricity, and who perhaps knew there was such a thing as written text, but did not himself read more than the alphabet.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“The Melidans controlled their birthrate, used only sustainable quantities, and built nothing which could not be eaten by the wilderness a year after they had abandoned it.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories

“and the barrel-maker’s daughter Wilma had never been troubled by an idea, good or bad, in her life. No: the terrible ideas were all Aston’s own, and at the moment, Tess felt as strongly as she ever had that he ought to have been taught to keep them to himself.”
― Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories