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The Iron Dragon's Daughter QUOTES

The Iron Dragon's Daughter QUOTES

1 " Surely you’ll agree that the planets order and control our destinies?” “They do not.” “Not at all?” “No.” “Then what does? Control our destinies, I mean.” “The only external forces that have any influence on us are those we can see every day: the smile, the frown, the fist, the brick wall. What you call ‘destiny’ is merely a semantic fallacy, the attribution of purpose to blind causality. Insofar as any of us are compelled to resist the flow of random events, we are driven solely by internal drives and forces. "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter

2 " There is a logic to the shapes of lives and relationships, and that logic is embedded in the stuff of existence. The lover does not awake one morning convinced he would rather be an engineer. The musician does not abandon her keyboard without regrets. The CEO does not surrender wealth. Or if he does, he will find it easier to give up everything, find a cave in the mountains and become a philosopher than to simply downscale his life-style. You see? We are all of us living stories that on some deep level give us satisfaction. If we are unhappy with our stories, that is not enough to free us from them. We must find other stories that flow naturally from those we have been living. "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter

3 " Silent, unseen, small cousin of death,
Born this instant, closer than breath,
Killer of thought, assassin of dreams,
Memory's surgeon, the end of your schemes. "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter

4 " You start by reading books, and you end by loving them "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter

5 " The television set groaned and wept blood when they turned it on. "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter

6 " when the down on the nape of her neck "

― Michael Swanwick , The Iron Dragon's Daughter