166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

Learn what your city has forgotten. What men of power have forgotten time and time again, throughout history - that there is always, always something mightier.

Gregor Dandolo did his utmost to follow the laws: both the laws of the city, and his own moral laws of the universe. But more and more these days, one seemed to disagree with the other.

People, though, and living things ... their sense of self is complicated. Mutable. It changes ... they think of themselves as soldiers, as kings, as wives and husbands and children ... People can convince themselves to be anything...

Wink? she thinks. Where the fuck is Wink?

What I'm going to do up here, kid, is tell you a story. Like all stories, it's an attempt to make sense of something larger than itself. And, like most stories, it fails, to a certain degree. It's a gloss, a rendition, so it's not exact. But it'll do. -Silenus

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

This is kind of a sticky situation, isn't it, Gurudas?" she says. "I told you two that if I caught either of you on my property again I'd expose a goodly amount of your innards to the fresh sea air. And I hate breaking promises. That's what whole of civilized society is founded upon, isn't it—promises?