To Fire Called Quotes

“Yeah. Well, I sometime embroider the truth a little.” “Embroider? I’ve seen less needlework on twelfth-century tapestries.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Have you pinned him down?” “You ever try to rivet gelatin?”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Self-interest has derailed more societies than any natural disaster. Other than—perhaps—plague.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Snakes don’t think like that. To miss their shed skins they’d have to be aware in the same way people were. They’d have to recognize that the old skin just didn’t fit any more and that to miss it would be negating the value of the new one. They’d have to understand that the new skin couldn’t have come into being without the old skin going before and being cast aside.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“If three people know a secret, it only stays a secret if all of them are dead,” he said. “I thought it was two,” I said. “Eventually that one will tell it and it’s no longer secret.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Enforcing ethical or moral standards has always been a human failing,” the chief said, rolling her coffee mug back and forth between her palms. “Self-interest has derailed more societies than any natural disaster. Other than—perhaps—plague.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“I’ve got a thing for good coffee but I’m not going to date a percolator.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Once you get over the shock, it’s not so bad. We’re here now. Outside the mirror. We can choose. Before you never knew what you didn’t know.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Basic economics. If you have a supply, you need a demand. Without it, you have no economy.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Just recognizing you’re in the hole helps more than you might expect. It opens the possibility that it wasn’t always like that and didn’t always have to be that way.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Have you gotten stupid since you made captain?” “No, I’ve always been stupid.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“The cabin was a box to keep the captain from rattling around in the ship, disturbing the crew like a loose marble in the overhead, rolling back and forth with the minute shifts of gravity and velocity too small for the human cargo to detect but enough to drive them mad unless somebody found the small glass ball. I wondered when I’d grown so dark.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“You don’t know what you don’t know,”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called

“Why not? You’ve clearly got a thing for her.” “I’ve got a thing for good coffee but I’m not going to date a percolator.”
― Nathan Lowell, To Fire Called