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Starcross (Larklight, #2) QUOTES

Starcross (Larklight, #2) QUOTES

1 " If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the asteroid belt. This Threlfall is a cheerless, chilly spot, and the whole history and religion of the Threls has been concerened with their quest to knit a nice woolly coverlet for it. "

― Philip Reeve , Starcross (Larklight, #2)

2 " Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth. "

― Philip Reeve , Starcross (Larklight, #2)