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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1) QUOTES

Incarceron (Incarceron, #1) QUOTES

1 " If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

2 " I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow words,
I have lied my way to the stars
-Songs of Sapphique "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

3 " Underground, the stars are legend. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

4 " Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

5 " All my years to this moment
All my roads to this wall.
All my words to this silence
All my pride to this fall.
-Songs of Sapphique "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

6 " Freedom is a small price to pay for survival. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

7 " Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

8 " The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

9 " Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

10 " I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

11 " Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked.
'In the fortresses,' the swan replied.
'And the poets?'
'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'
'And the craftsmen?'
'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.'
'And the Wise, who made the world?'
The swan lowered its black neck sadly.
'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

12 " Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

13 " We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

14 " Nothing has changed, or will change.
So we must change it. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

15 " Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

16 " None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

17 " Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me."
Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window.
"Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy... "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

18 " We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

19 " And the poets?'
'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'...
'And the wise, who made this world?'
The swan lowered its black neck sadly.
'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers. "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)

20 " Shut up!" Finn turned, furious. "Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn? "

― Catherine Fisher , Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)