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21 " her. “What’ll you do?” I asked, meaning "
― Rod Duncan , Unseemly Science (The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #2)
22 " Take off the disguise and another is revealed beneath. Regard well the many people you must be. When the last layer is gone, there can be no more life. "
― Rod Duncan , The Custodian of Marvels (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, #3)
23 " Declare a thing unknown and they will share in your wonderment. Declare it a secret and they will consider it a challenge. "
24 " We use our eyes to see the world. But, as every conjurer knows, it is the mind that makes meaning. "
25 " To perform the impossible is elementary. It requires only that everything you are and everything you have learned be brought to focus in one moment, and at a place where no one else is looking. "
26 " CHAPTER 40 It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. – Edgar Allan Poe "
― Rod Duncan , The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, #1)
27 " There is truth to be found in the mouths of liars, and lies in the mouths of truthful men, though they set out only to deceive themselves. "
28 " To hide an elephant is easy. Simply put it where they are not looking. "
29 " There was once a line marked out by God, through which were divided Heaven and Hell. And thus was chaos banished from the world. The Devil created lawyers to make amends. They argued the thickness of the line until there was room enough within it for all the sins of men to fit. And all the sins of women too. – The Bullet Catcher’s Handbook "
30 " All luck is illusion. Few illusions are luck. "
31 " They will beg to be told the secrets of your illusion. But you must know them better than they know themselves. The truth will disappoint. "
32 " The plan that no one else has thought of may be genius or delusion. Time alone will reveal which. "
33 " I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man. "
34 " The illusion must be one story hidden and one story shown. Without the first, there will be no trick. Without the second, they will discover the first. For no mind will accept a thing unless it sees a reason. "
35 " Alone among craftsmen, the bullet catcher must hide his skill. For, once glimpsed, the illusion would be gone forever. "
36 " It is sweet and fitting to live for your art. But die for it and you will be remembered forever. "