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Max Gladstone Quote: “You’re not who you think you are,” Viv said. “You’re a dream. That’s all. But don’t take it too hard. So are the rest of us.”

51. “You’re not who you think you are,” Viv said. “You’re a dream. That’s all. But don’t take it too hard. So are the rest of us.”

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Max Gladstone Quote: “Ancient sages have written: what you cannot break, you do not own.”

52. “Ancient sages have written: what you cannot break, you do not own.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “No city is one city, as no one mind is altogether and only itself. A woman is many women, a man is many men, a city is many cities – not in sequence, but all at once.”

53. “No city is one city, as no one mind is altogether and only itself. A woman is many women, a man is many men, a city is many cities – not in sequence, but all at once.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “Zelda had a sudden impression that the palace was alive, an inhuman giant buried to its neck in the city, waiting for her with many blank eyes. Those emerald columns were its teeth. It waited for each new wave of lords and ate them each in turn, sucked their brains through small holes drilled in their skulls... What did the palace care for whose flag it flew, whose head sat on the shoulders of the statue on it’s throne? It was patient, and hungry. It laughed in architecture.”

54. “Zelda had a sudden impression that the palace was alive, an inhuman giant buried to its neck in the city, waiting for her with many blank eyes. Those emerald columns were its teeth. It waited for each new wave of lords and ate them each in turn, sucked their brains through small holes drilled in their skulls... What did the palace care for whose flag it flew, whose head sat on the shoulders of the statue on it’s throne? It was patient, and hungry. It laughed in architecture.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “You pushed on that gap between the way the world was and the way the world could be, until, if you were strong and smart and pure and very lucky and very dumb, one day the gap grew teeth and opened its mouth and ate you.”

55. “You pushed on that gap between the way the world was and the way the world could be, until, if you were strong and smart and pure and very lucky and very dumb, one day the gap grew teeth and opened its mouth and ate you.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “The key difference between gods and men in the manner of their dying was that men possessed only two deep obligations: to the earth, from which came their flesh, and to the stars, from which came their soul. Neither earth nor stars were particularly concerned about the return on their investment. Humans were very good at adding order to the earth, and enlivening the world of the stars with ideas and myth. When a human being died, nobody had a vested interest in keeping her around.”

56. “The key difference between gods and men in the manner of their dying was that men possessed only two deep obligations: to the earth, from which came their flesh, and to the stars, from which came their soul. Neither earth nor stars were particularly concerned about the return on their investment. Humans were very good at adding order to the earth, and enlivening the world of the stars with ideas and myth. When a human being died, nobody had a vested interest in keeping her around.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “Surviving these things didn’t make them okay. It just let you know that you could survive them.”

57. “Surviving these things didn’t make them okay. It just let you know that you could survive them.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “You dug irrigation ditches in your soul to channel your fear, to guide it to useful work. But the ditches remained even when the fear was gone – and some part of you kept shoring up those ditches and maintaining the waterworks in case and until the fear came back. Because the fear had to come back.”

58. “You dug irrigation ditches in your soul to channel your fear, to guide it to useful work. But the ditches remained even when the fear was gone – and some part of you kept shoring up those ditches and maintaining the waterworks in case and until the fear came back. Because the fear had to come back.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “They’d set out on this quest without a wizard to guide them, finding the rules as they went. To do that, you read, you listened to jazz records or to the blues, you argued about hip-hop lyrics, you danced and you watched the dancers and you listened to poets and storytellers where poems were still read and stories still told. Sometimes you caught a glimpse, you caught a hint that others knew what you knew, that they had dreamed the path you now walked, or walked it themselves for a while.”

59. “They’d set out on this quest without a wizard to guide them, finding the rules as they went. To do that, you read, you listened to jazz records or to the blues, you argued about hip-hop lyrics, you danced and you watched the dancers and you listened to poets and storytellers where poems were still read and stories still told. Sometimes you caught a glimpse, you caught a hint that others knew what you knew, that they had dreamed the path you now walked, or walked it themselves for a while.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “We learn systems so we may learn ourselves. A mind is as complex as a mindforge – but subtler; so subtle most beings cannot comprehend even their simplest thought in its entirety. We study so that when we are thrust against the limits of our our minds, we can break ourselves.”

60. “We learn systems so we may learn ourselves. A mind is as complex as a mindforge – but subtler; so subtle most beings cannot comprehend even their simplest thought in its entirety. We study so that when we are thrust against the limits of our our minds, we can break ourselves.”

— Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone Quote: “Even after two years on the road, most of her experience of conspiracies still came from stories about them – and stories were meant to communicate what was happening to an audience, while a real conspiracy depended on everybody save its actors living like goats in a farmyard, ignorant of knives until they fell.”

61. “Even after two years on the road, most of her experience of conspiracies still came from stories about them – and stories were meant to communicate what was happening to an audience, while a real conspiracy depended on everybody save its actors living like goats in a farmyard, ignorant of knives until they fell.”

— Max Gladstone

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