Mortal Fire Quotes

“What no one else sees, no one else cares about.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“Shakespeare had all these sonnets where what he said came down to this: Youth is fleeting and you'd better get married and have children and make a copy of the beauty you own because the world owns it too.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“I don't know whether you know this, but there are people in the world with a very odd gift, one that looks like crossed wires. These people firmly believe that every number has a color, and every sound a shape...”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“It'll turn out you mean love,' Sholto said. 'At the moment math is the only thing that excites you so you're nosing around numbers as if numbers are life. But in two years you'll be telling me about some boy.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire

“I guess I should have said that you're a tragic loss because your brains were yours and yours alone. You were the one who could pull the sword out of the stone. And you gave it all up.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Mortal Fire