The Distant Dead Quotes

“Take your seats, please,” Mr. Merkel said in his soft voice, but that filament of sound thrummed just enough to nudge twenty-two summer children into fall.”
― Heather Young, The Distant Dead

“That’s the whole point of being a mathematician! Ever since Euclid, people have been coming up with theories about how numbers work and figuring out how to prove them. Brilliant men die before they can prove their theories, leaving the proofs to other men who won’t be born for centuries. It’s like this incredible conversation that’s been going on for five thousand years.”
― Heather Young, The Distant Dead

“All stories need watchers. Otherwise, it’s like they never happened.”
― Heather Young, The Distant Dead