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Top 15 Ian Tregillis Quotes (2025 Update)

Ian Tregillis Quote: “Oh, for crying out loud,” she said. “Were you fools any more chivalrous I’d surely swoon on the spot and damage my uterus.”

1. “Oh, for crying out loud,” she said. “Were you fools any more chivalrous I’d surely swoon on the spot and damage my uterus.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.”

2. “Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “Having tasted life without the pain of obligation perpetually burning him from within, he’d choose death over the return to bondage. He’d make that choice in an instant. Life as a slave was unspeakable; life as a slave who had briefly tasted freedom was unthinkable.”

3. “Having tasted life without the pain of obligation perpetually burning him from within, he’d choose death over the return to bondage. He’d make that choice in an instant. Life as a slave was unspeakable; life as a slave who had briefly tasted freedom was unthinkable.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “The clockwork men and women fated to maneuver the oars twenty-four hours per day until the ship reached its destination had turned their silent voices to song as they bent their backs to row. They sang not in any human language but in the secret language of the mechanicals. A shanty sung in the click-tick-click of clockwork bodies, the crash of tapped feet, the clatter of metal hands gripping banded wooden spars.”

4. “The clockwork men and women fated to maneuver the oars twenty-four hours per day until the ship reached its destination had turned their silent voices to song as they bent their backs to row. They sang not in any human language but in the secret language of the mechanicals. A shanty sung in the click-tick-click of clockwork bodies, the crash of tapped feet, the clatter of metal hands gripping banded wooden spars.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.”

5. “It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “The prosperity achieved through slavery had a way of blinding men’s hearts to the evil of their own hands.”

6. “The prosperity achieved through slavery had a way of blinding men’s hearts to the evil of their own hands.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “How did humans guide themselves? How did they know what to do and what not to do?”

7. “How did humans guide themselves? How did they know what to do and what not to do?”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “Jesus Christ on a six-day wine bender.”

8. “Jesus Christ on a six-day wine bender.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “Clakkers carried complex geasa by dint of alchemy; humans carried heavy obligations, too, but called them culture. Society.”

9. “Clakkers carried complex geasa by dint of alchemy; humans carried heavy obligations, too, but called them culture. Society.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a bad-tempered camel.”

10. “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a bad-tempered camel.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “Jesus’s bloody tears.”

11. “Jesus’s bloody tears.”

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Ian Tregillis Quote: “For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.”

12. “For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “His wings, all six, shed embers of incandescent grace as he skidded across the night sky. And when he opened his mouths to scream, the Earth could do naught but shudder.”

13. “His wings, all six, shed embers of incandescent grace as he skidded across the night sky. And when he opened his mouths to scream, the Earth could do naught but shudder.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “Raindrops misted the Ridderzal’s immense rosette window. Water dripped from the architectural tracery that turned the window into a stained glass cog. It streaked the colored panes of oculi and quatrefoils depicting the empire’s arms: a rosy cross surrounded by the arms of the great families all girded by the teeth of the universal cog.”

14. “Raindrops misted the Ridderzal’s immense rosette window. Water dripped from the architectural tracery that turned the window into a stained glass cog. It streaked the colored panes of oculi and quatrefoils depicting the empire’s arms: a rosy cross surrounded by the arms of the great families all girded by the teeth of the universal cog.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “Fire became an emerald mist where it touched his flesh. Its smoke smelled of cinnamon and sulfur, and tasted like pickled starlight. “Did you leave,” she asked, “or were you kicked out?” “Don’t get cute. I left,” said Bayliss. He muttered, “I really wish somebody had given old Milton a sock in the kisser when they’d had the chance.”

15. “Fire became an emerald mist where it touched his flesh. Its smoke smelled of cinnamon and sulfur, and tasted like pickled starlight. “Did you leave,” she asked, “or were you kicked out?” “Don’t get cute. I left,” said Bayliss. He muttered, “I really wish somebody had given old Milton a sock in the kisser when they’d had the chance.”

— Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis Quote: “I’ll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We’re talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he’d heard it.”

16. “I’ll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We’re talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he’d heard it.”

— Ian Tregillis

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