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Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2) QUOTES

Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2) QUOTES

1 " A ship with two of every animal in the world, my friend? That would have to be a very large ship indeed. Is that how you would save a world? A bull and a cow, a sheep and a ram, and so on? The people who wrote your Torah, my friend, must have had poor livestock if they raised their herds from only one dam and one sire, breeding sisters with their brothers, any herdsman knows that this does not produce a healthy flock.

No, my friend to save the world you save the knowledge of that world, the knowledge that there were bulls and cows in it, that there were sheep and rams in it, that there were men and women who lived and died. If your world is to be destroyed, all you can save my friend, is the knowledge of it, to restore what you once had, to mourn what can never be restored. "

― Hal Duncan , Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)

2 " We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [...] have come to believe that all the greatest truths are trite and banal, when spoken aloud in their simplest and most honest terms. Perhaps they can only be imparted in the Cant, in a language which writes itself onto your heart so that you understand not just the words but all the shattering ramifications of of a sentence which, when heard without true understanding, seems quite risibly simplistic.
We are our own worst enemies.
People die. "

― Hal Duncan , Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)

3 " No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send us into fire or light. We're fucking prisoners of conscience, prisoners of fear and shame. We're fucking prisoners of sorrow, and it's time for our release. "

― Hal Duncan , Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)

4 " Find the truth and spread the lie. "

― Hal Duncan , Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)

5 " The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe. "

― Hal Duncan , Ink (The Book of All Hours, #2)