Rust in the Root Quotes

“The things people believe never really die. Ever they rise, and ever they need to be defeated anew.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“No one cares where their Mechomancy comes from, not truly—they just care that it works. We’re going to be heroes, and you lot will be nothing but a footnote. As for the lower arts, well, the sooner the Negro realizes that we will never find ourselves on the path to acceptance by white society until we give up the old ways, the better. And that begins with this.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“She’s been a big help in getting me better at all the things I don’t know, which is a lot. Those public schools keep a lot of the mystical arts secret.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“No one is interested in hearing that the constructs upon which the economy is built are the same ones destroying it—just like no one ever felt like discussing the ways in which Mechomancy had been the single most direct driver of the transatlantic slave trade.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“There isn't anything worth dying over. Especially not in Ohio.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“That’s the way of the colonizers. They divvied their arts up so much that they were left with nothing but ashes, and when even that started to fail, they combined alchemy and science into Mechomancy, hardly requiring any art at all. But the mystical arts have been around far longer than their machines and constructs. The Possibilities will always balance out, somehow, some way. And when the reaction is powerful enough—” “You get the Great Rust,” the Skylark says. Miss Fox nods. “Or the Spanish flu. Or the Johnstown floods. Really, this land has been telling folks for a while to get their business in order, and we just keep on legislating nature, as if the Possibilities care what a bunch of men in some building in Washington have to say about them.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root

“I’ve never much cared for unicorns. They’re judgmental jerks in the way that all beautiful cryptids tend to be.”
― Justina Ireland, Rust in the Root