'Anyone can say what they like in the square. We have another tradition, though, called free listening...when people dislike what they hear, they can become a little testy.'
'You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.'
'How can people talk like that? Acting as if they're glad they don't things! Finding out more and more thing they don't know!'
'I don't think I'm one of them, either…I think I'm one of mine.'
'Mmm. Good lord. I forgot.' He laughed. 'I forgot. One hundred years, eh? But here and now, we-'
'It's flat, you know…I've sailed out into the Rim Ocean. It's flat, and I've seen the Edge, and it moves. Not the Edge. I mean…what's down there.'
'Dates? Figs? Sherbets? Holy relics? Nice fresh indulgences? Lizards? Onna stick?' said the man with the tray hopefully.
IV. I said, it's very healthy, it's a live yogurt. V. He said, yes, he could see.'
'It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.'
'You don't like it, do you?'
'Nevertheless…the Turtle Moves!'
'You know, I never meant for people to believe in the Turtle. It's just a big turtle. It just exists. Things just happen that way. I don't think the Turtle gives a damn.'
'Sometimes there are very big waves…Nothing would stop them. But if you ride them, you do not drown. This is something I learned.'
He'd learned about the turtle, there. It had all made sense. He'd thought: it sounds right. It makes sense. But sense or not, that thought was sending him to Hell.
'Very well, lord...I had to nudge things a little, though.'
'You can't read a mind. You might as well try and read a river. But seeing the shape's easy. Witches can do it, no trouble.'
It can't be just him…the rest of thought was so terrible he tried to block it from his mind, but he couldn't …it can't be just him who believes in me.
You forgot it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show a tortoise how to fly.
He'd lived for a moment like this. Someone had to bring back the writer of the Truth, to be a symbol for the movement. It had to be him.
'I am ashamed for Omnia. Look at us. Stuck in the past. Held back by repressive monotheism. Shunned by our neighbors.'
'No wind. No rowers! Do you even begin to understand what you have here, Urn?'
'He's muffed it. He could've done anything with them. And he just told them a lot of facts. You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.'
'The desert becomes really interesting after the mushroom season.'
Nice lad…Talked to himself a lot, but that was only to be expected. The desert took some people like that, didn't it, Angus?
'Deserve? They're human. What's deserve got to do with it?'
'Our ancestors were sadly very suspicious and put in many traps out of distrust; we keep them well-greased and primed, of course, merely out of a respect for tradition.'
'Describe what an Ambiguous Puzuma looks like.'
Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
'The sea, Brutha. It washes unholy shores and gives rise to dangerous ideas. Men should not travel, Brutha. At the center there is truth. As you travel, so error creeps in.'
'There are some things which appear to be the truth, which have all the hallmarks of truth, but which are not the real truth.'
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