"Perdido Street Station" Quotes
In a fantastical city, a scientist and a rogue detective team up to battle a monstrous threat.
fantasy | 623 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
A man does not serve because he is safe and secure, but in order to become so.
The possibility of possibility is the beginning of the end.
The rich are not good. They think it's a skill, being rich.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
We are not here to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads of it, and the load is heavy.
We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others' lives.
We must accept the risk of inner conflict, of self-doubt, in order to be born in time.
We are all born in chains. Some have them yanked off by the first breath they take; others fight all their lives against them.
One should never be afraid to bend the rules, so long as one never breaks them.
There's a kind of power in the kind of people I write about.
