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The Angel of the Crows QUOTES

The Angel of the Crows QUOTES

1 " had scarcely closed the street door behind me when Crow came barreling down the stairs and enveloped me in a hug that seemed like a combination of entanglement in a deck chair and assault by a pack of feather-dusters. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

2 " Birds aren’t actually an awfully good analogy. You’d do better to think of us as bees.” “Bees?” said I, taken aback. “Well, we’ve too many limbs to be mammals,” he said reasonably. “And our social structure is much better represented by a hive than by a warren—or even by a rookery. And bees do sing, in a way. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

3 " The air tasted of fear and rage and something even darker, uglier, something like the smell of her blood on the little man’s hands. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

4 " A dog with a bone was nothing compared to Crow with an unanswered question, and I had a lively appreciation for the feelings of the bone. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

5 " He asked because he truly wanted to know, and she responded with the pleasure people always feel when asked sincerely about their lives. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

6 " The day had been a dreary one, and although it was not yet seven, a dense, dazzling fog that turned London into a city of ghosts. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

7 " The grounds of Pondichierry Lodge looked as though a thousand moles had tunneled for a thousand days and then, unsatisfied, had tunneled for a thousand more. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

8 " Shepherds watch over their flocks. And angels watch over shepherds. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

9 " Cerberus automata do not track by scent. They track the psychic residue that human beings leave on everything they touch. This makes them particularly formidable, for while you may disguise your scent or cross your trail, you cannot disguise your psyche. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

10 " It’s not that he’s a stupid man-he’s brighter than Gregson, for one-but he comes up with a theory and then moves the facts around to match it. The problem is that he’s so frequently correct, he’s gotten out of the habit of imagining that he could be wrong. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

11 " In the window of the flat above a tobacconist, a red lamp told the senasation seekers and the addicts where to find the vampires. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

12 " I have had many names. Perhaps you will call Anuvadaka? It means ‘translator’, which was my job. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

13 " I know who Mr. Small was, for there were very few English prisoners, and especially not Englishmen imprisoned for killing for killing an Indian man-but he and Dost Akbar had killed the man by feeding on him, which I have noticed the British find particularly loathsome. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

14 " I think perhaps all of the Fallen are insane-it’s just that some of them stay rational, such as the Fallen of Afghanistan who can fight with the partisans. They can still make treaties. But they ae still irrationally bent on destruction and revenge. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

15 " I do hold grudges, even though I shouldn’t. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

16 " We are very bad at making choices. It is a kindness of our Maker to remove that choice from our remit. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

17 " Like almost all of your people, police officers don’t often look up. And I have learned to navigate London in the five years we have stayed here. It is not too different from the jungle in its own way. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

18 " He made no secret of the fact that his three friends-and the Agra treasure-came first with him. And he was very angry with me for killing Batholomew Sholto. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

19 " If he had bitten Mr. Sholto, he would have savaged everyone in the house. Perhaps I did the wrong thing, but I had sworn an oath to him, and at that point, he had not broken his promise to me. Thus I spared his life as he had spared mine. He showed his gratitude by beating me for it. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows

20 " Is your oath still binding?” Crow asked cautiously.

“He betrayed me,” Anuvadaka said. “You cannot keep faith with the faithless.”

“Then will you help us find him?”

“I must, mustn’t I?” said Anuvadaka with another of his lopsided half-sad smiles. “Since it is my fault that he is still out there to be found. "

― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows