The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands Quotes

“Our names will be remembered,” he had said to the engineer. Isn’t that what everyone wanted? To not be forgotten. To be more than a line in a ledger, the sum total of your life adding up to little more than the strength you wasted to make other men rich.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

“They speak in the dry, long-winded English of the Company, so that Weiwei has forgotten the beginning of their sentences before they get to the end.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

“She takes a deep breath. There is a kind of ecstasy in the faces of the people in the carriage. This is why we have our rituals, she thinks. This is why they are needed—so that we can lose ourselves for a while.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

“The moon rises and the water turns to silver. It is hard not to think of the darkness beneath it, and what may be living there, in the depths where the light never shines. I advise the cautious traveller to limit the time they spend observing it.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

“He has suffered too many tedious evenings, amazed at how they can speak so long about so little. Though they could be among the grandest of mountains or cities, their horizons remain barely wider than the walls of their own estates.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands