"The Watchmaker of Filigree Street" Quotes
A mysterious watchmaker's creations hold the power to change the course of history in Victorian London.
fantasy | 318 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
People are foxes, not wolves.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The thing about the past is that it never goes away. It's always there, whether you acknowledge it or not.
Sometimes it's easier to see things clearly when you're not looking straight at them.
You never really know a person until you've seen them light their pipe.
There's more to life than happiness. There's duty.
Funny thing about happiness, it doesn't much matter whether it's yours or not.
The sound of a clock ticking is the noise of the present moment disappearing forever.
People forget stories, you know. They only remember events. And stories are just made up of events.
