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Quotes from In the Garden of Iden — Kage Baker

1952–2010 United States

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Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Smashing things is the violent way stupid mortal monkeys solve their problems.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortals, nor in their music, nor in their dreams: it’s out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don’t know what it is, this holiness: but it’s there, and it looks at the sky.

In the Garden of Iden (1997)

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