The Scholars of Night Quotes

“If convincing the other side to accept fake information required a death, it was often more efficient and less expensive to use someone outside the apparatus. Some organizations considered it better espionage as well, in the same way that hunters after deer try to shoot one another only by accident.”
― John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night

“She went to the center of the garden, stood facing the rear of the house. "'Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,'" she said, and took three steps forward, and turned right. "'Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone ...'" Seven steps, and a left turn. Nine for mortal men, doomed to die ...'" After nine paces she bent down and turned over one of the stones edging a flowerbed, dug into the soil beneath with her fingers. Her hand came up, shaking dirt from something. "'One for the Dark Lord, on his dark throne.'" She turned to face Hansard, holding out an oxidised brass key. "Or, as the office help used to say, 'Edward Chetwynd, OBE, never can recall his key.”
― John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night

“Change the world," he said, in a small voice.
"Yes."
"It has to change the world, doesn't it .. or it's just common treason.”
― John M. Ford, The Scholars of Night