Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We must be careful what we become when we seek to change things. An old principle of physics: if you push, you yourself are pushed in turn.”
“Sitting in that cell with him as he wheezed his last hours away, I could feel my presence eroding, the desert wind smoothing over all the footprints I had ever made.”
“Shadrapar has no purpose, no function. It exists for itself only, its own downward spiral to oblivion. It exists only to imprison the minds of those who dwell within it, so that their world shrinks until it holds nothing but their own desires, and they fight to stop you showing what’s beyond the bars. So I called it the cage of souls, so they would understand.”
“One of the Academy Masters once said that nobody ever made a statue of a man running away. My answer to that is that very few living men get statues.”
“It is easy for a comfortable, free man to cry at the fall of every little bird. A prisoner in fear of his life has precious little regret to spare for anyone else.”
“I was also unsure that once a man has raised the mob (for there is really only one mob, waiting in potentia to be raised) whether anyone can keep it from the barbaric acts of violence it strains for.”
“For that, I thank him. A vast and worthless education is the greatest gift a child can have.”
“when you set out to change things, the things you want to change push back.”
“life is made of patterns that repeat themselves,”
“When under pressure I had two distinct faults, before the Island cured me of them. Firstly, my voice became high and shrill and ostentatiously posh. Secondly, I used to blurt the truth out before I could think of a good fabrication.”
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