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River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2) QUOTES

River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2) QUOTES

1 " She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

2 " If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

3 " As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

4 " During its timeless hours of movement and inspection, as it floated on the number-winds and learned from their shape and force, it had become aware of something else, something so far from the conceptual map of the environment it had originally been given as to briefly constitute a new danger to the Nemesis program's logical integrity. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

5 " And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

6 " Read books? That’s like eating mielie pap—it start out bad, then it get no better.” Joseph took a deep breath and let it out slowly, overburdened by the mere thought of literature. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)

7 " Always choosing one side of the coin, instead of simply choosing the coin itself. Both have so strongly rejected the other’s side that they will regret it one day. "

― Tad Williams , River of Blue Fire (Otherland, #2)