"Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers."

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Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.205, Penguin

Catherine Fisher

#Wise Quotes #Dream Quotes #Swans Quotes

“The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.”
“I remember things the way they should have been.”
“My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.”
“Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.”
“Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.”
“Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.”
“I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.”
“If anyone says that the one Jesus Christ who is both true Son of God and true Son of man did not know the future or the day of the Last Judgment and that he could know only as much as the divinity, dwelling in him as in another, revealed to him, anathema sit.”

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