Traveling with the Dead Quotes

“It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday.”
― Barbara Hambly, Traveling with the Dead

“The Dead always find ways,” Ysidro said, “to get the living to serve them.”
― Barbara Hambly, Traveling with the Dead

“Refrigeration works, you must know, my dear Frau Asher, by compression of ammonia gas, much better than the old sulfur dioxide system. Sulfur dioxide—that’s a chemical compound—has the inconvenient habit of becoming corrosive and eating up the machinery which stores it.”
― Barbara Hambly, Traveling with the Dead

“It is the blood that feeds the flesh,” Ysidro said. “We can—and do, at need—live upon the blood of animals, or blood taken from the living without need of their death. But it is the death that feeds the powers of our minds. Without the kill, we find our abilities fading,”
― Barbara Hambly, Traveling with the Dead