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Quotes from The Mechanical — Ian Tregillis

born 1973 United States

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13 quotes

It isn’t courtly politics if somebody doesn’t get a dagger in the back.

The Mechanical (2015)

The fallacy of your personal bias is inherent in your choice of words.

The Mechanical (2015)

How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?

The Mechanical (2015)

“Absence of proof,” said Bell, “is not proof of absence.”

The Mechanical (2015)

Heartlessness wasn’t the sole province of the rich.

The Mechanical (2015)

First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?

The Mechanical (2015)

He’d expected torture. He hadn’t expected surgery.

The Mechanical (2015)

And, as was so often the case, the history taught to children was oversimplified, watered down, and ofttimes counterfactual.

The Mechanical (2015)

Such were the brittle threads of a relationship built not on trust but on a slurry of fear, mutual codependence, and self-interest.

The Mechanical (2015)

It’s not my fault your makers made you humorless.

The Mechanical (2015)

Perhaps there really was a God, and He was just as cruel as the humans He made in His form.

The Mechanical (2015)

They were old enough to know such things were forbidden, yet young enough still to find the forbidden irresistible rather than terrifying.

The Mechanical (2015)

He didn’t trust them. But he did trust their greed.

The Mechanical (2015)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian Tregillis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.