“Senlin marveled at how adept the human race was at injecting a sense of routine into peculiar environments; it seemed a certainty that once people were added, the mundane was sure to follow.” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“She would not tell him the truth for some weeks, but she would eventually confess that she had left with him because the fear had gone out of her daily leaps. Her hours were filled with confident, minor feats and toothless dangers. She would not call it such, but Adam would later name it for her: it was boredom that… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share
“Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Senlin could easily tell which porters only became busy at his approach. The hardest workers moved slowly, deliberately, while the lazy appeared eternally fresh… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“But that’s how it always is in the beginning. Learning starts with failure.” Iren” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I haven’t met many men who wouldn’t take advantage of a woman they shared a cage with.” Senlin waved the point away, as if… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Senlin marveled at how adept the human race was at injecting a sense of routine into peculiar environments; it seemed a certainty that once… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Because they can keep us here forever, and I can’t stay here. Do you want to die like this? I don’t. I want to… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The” — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I am upset because we have pooled our human genius into the building of an elaborate Tower and have filled it up with the… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
