Made Things Quotes

“In the next breath, the door sagged in its frame, not from the lock side but off its hinges, so that Kernel lunged forwards to catch it before it fell on the three of them. “Subtle,” he complained, and Shabby was privately agreeing, but for his eyes she just shrugged and gestured as if to say, Well, we’re in, aren’t we?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Her own workbench in the Barrio was the result of years of scrimping, saving, handcrafting and outright theft, and she had thought herself quite the well-equipped artisan for her own small trade. Now she felt such a deep, deep jealousy, an envy of the soul like acid in her, because if she had owned something like this, then what might she not have accomplished?”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Gaston Ferrulio, who exalted in the nickname of the Iron End, was one of the youngest and simultaneously one of the strongest: ambitious, pushy, heedless of traditions that let his seniors sink into decadent complacency. At thirty years, he cut a trim figure, thin face barbered to a point and wearing a robe of green slit down the middle to show well-turned legs. He was known as a duelist in his own right, lucky in games of chance, farsighted in games of strategy and absolutely the worst man in the Barrio to make an enemy of.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Gaston Ferrulio, who exalted in the nickname of the Iron End, was one of the youngest and simultaneously one of the strongest: ambitious, pushy, heedless of traditions that let his seniors sink into decadent complacency. At thirty years, he cut a trim figure, thin face barbered to a point”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“they feuded constantly to see who could be king of the most nothing.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Run? But she had a living here, pieced together under the noses of the Convocation, built from nothing and held up by a scaffolding of contacts”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“Jointmaker’s protuberant eyes goggled at her. “Just bring your hands, girl, and hope you still have the same number of fingers when you leave.” He laughed unpleasantly—but then, he did everything unpleasantly—and slouched out of the house.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“sympathy was like water: you couldn’t push it uphill very easily.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things

“It should have looked absurd, but somehow it lent his self-important pomp a perilous grandeur.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Made Things