Obernewtyn Quotes
"Those fortunate enough to live on remote holdings and farms were spared the chemical destruction of the Great White."
"To remove any qualms people might have about the killings, these burnings took on a ritual air."
"Gradually religious dogma and law fused and the honest way of the farmer was seen as the only right way."
"Machines, books, and all the artifacts of the old world that had perished, were abhorred and destroyed."
"Any who dared oppose the order were tried and burned as Seditioners."
"A new name was devised for anyone with an affliction not apparent at birth—Misfit."
"So great was the death toll under Council rule that hundreds of children were left orphaned each year."
"The community regarded the inmates of orphan homes with an abiding suspicion."
"The dawn came and went as we walked, a wan gray light seeping into the world."
"The path led us toward a pool of water in a small valley."
"It was understood the visions came most often on tainted ground where the land had not long ago been untouchable."
"The Silent Vale was such a place, edging close on the Blacklands."
"Collection of the whitestick was fraught with danger, for the substance could only be found in areas verging on tainted."
"It was as if a special kind of death had come to the Silent Vale."
"Herder knowledge was wide-ranging and sometimes obscure, but generally reliable."
"Those who had before been friends, now became aloof and even slightly suspicious of one another."
"I wondered if he had understood that I really was going away for good."
"But deep down I knew they had nothing to do with either the fall or the weather."
"Misfits are a particularly foul and insidious threat to our community."
"These fools think everyone who doesn't think and act as they do is evil."
"Change comes and things have gone too far to drag them back to what they were."
"Every year there be more Misfits and Seditioners and one day that Council will find there's more in the prisons than out."
"Magic! Pah! I don't think for one moment they were any more magic than thee."
"But change comes and things have gone too far to drag them back to what they were."
"It ain't safe to be blathering out every crazy notion."
"It seemed like a good idea at the time, to burn all the books that had caused the Oldtimes to go wrong."
"People, like you are the worst sort."
"Death is known to the wildbeast. All who live, not only beasts, live with death riding on their back. But beasts do not regard it as a burden."
"Wisdom is not something one could teach, but a thing each person must discover for himself."
"Everyone knew the shape of the world had been changed forever by the Great White."
"There is so much good and evil allotted to each life, and there is much that is neither good nor bad."
"The forests are filled with wolves of the most savage kind and there are still bears living in the heights."
"Escape and death are the only ways out. I do not imagine you want to die, and, as for escape, the nearest settlement is leagues away."
"All who live, not only beasts, live with death riding on their back."
"It was like traveling through a pool and getting deeper and deeper without ever touching the bottom."
"Perhaps the greatest challenge in life is finding someone who knows all your flaws, differences, and mistakes, yet still sees the best in you."
"No one knew whether or not Selmar had been caught and there was talk that the twins would be sent to one of the remote Councilfarms."