Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times Quotes

“And here you are, a stripling of a boy who has already survived the worst this land can throw at a body, but suddenly ready to give up after one mistake?” Dr. Snailwater’s voice grew fierce. “You should be grateful some things can be fixed.”
“What if I can’t?” Jack asked in a small voice.
“Then you try again!”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“The toy soldiers gathered a few more flakes of dust on their shelves; the books stayed shut and squeezed together, telling their stories only to themselves between their covers.”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“Other than this, the room was entirely still, as if such a grand clock had stolen even the time it took for a dustmote to float across a sunbeam, needing every minute, every second it could find.”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“A land of brass and steel and clockwork, of steam airships, cogs that turned and wheels that spun.”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“The number of times he'd had to pinch his nose to keep his soul in so that he'd make no noise while peering through the parlor keyhole...”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“The landscape always changed, but the magic never did. The tales were told to children wrapped up in sheets, to frighten or to soothe, but those doing the telling didn't have to believe. Perhaps it was just as well that they didn't, for the stories got so much of it wrong. They always do. The legends told of dragons and faeries, of locked towers and imprisoned princesses, and this was true enough.”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times