The Waking Engine Quotes

“Walter rolled his eyes. “Sack up, kid.” “Amen, Whitman,” Nixon agreed.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine

“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine

“So while Asher and Sesstri fought their battles and Cooper flew into madness, Osebo the Leopard took it upon himself to tend to the child, and to see if he could kindle in Nixon's eyes the ghost of wonder he knew had once lived there. They all had that, and as a rule they all lost it one way or another; in that way, Osebo mused, they were no different than the First People.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine

“What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.”
― David Edison, The Waking Engine