Ian Tregillis Quotes

He’d expected torture. He hadn’t expected surgery.

The duke was right about you."\n"He survived? That's a shame.

The fallacy of your personal bias is inherent in your choice of words.

You narrow-minded idiots have mistaken delaying the inevitable for a divinely bestowed right to survive…
You aren't noble survivors of a historical tragedy, you're a lingering curiosity of a bygone age. The last vestige of a primitive past. Dust to be swept away. The difference between you and I, dear Berenice, is that I recognized the broom for what it was. And got out of the way.

But the speculation was pointless. The past was forever in the past.

Salazar consulted the map again. “Almost there,” he whispered. “Just another mile.”
Arthur sighed. “Wonderful.”
Anastasia rounded on him. “Go wander the tunnels on your own, you useless pencil pusher. You have zero skills of value to offer to our current situation. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but of all the problems currently facing the city, the Guild, and the Empire, not to mention ourselves, a lack of properly filed paperwork is not one of them.”

We’ve drawn attention to ourselves with our obsessive need to stay inconspicuous.

Well," he said, "you must be feeling very proud of yourself right now."\n"It occurs to me that I might be an underappreciated genius." She paused to clutch the mast again during a particularly hard gust. "But I'll tell you something. It's not so wonderful, learning you were right all along to suspect the world is conspiring against you.

First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?

How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?

How have you acquired such intimate knowledge of our kind's innermost construction?"\n"You know exactly how. You need me because I'm not burdened with a system of mores that hobbles my inquiries. So you can drop the indignation and make yourselves useful.

Alchemy was useful but never compassionate.

I’ve learned to be wary when something makes you this excited.

Heartlessness wasn’t the sole province of the rich.

Only a fool wasted energy on things he could not control.