Mortal Engines Philip Reeve Quotes

#1. A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings ... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

William Wordsworth

#2. Speak to me as to thy thinking
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words ...

William Shakespeare

#3. One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

Amber Heard

#4. There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

Boyle Roche

#5. I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Philip Reeve

#6. Laurent had stopped dead the moment he had seen Damen, his face turning white as though in reaction to a slap, or an insult.

C.S. Pacat

#7. I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

Philip Reeve

#8. We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover ... the traditional teaching that power must entail restraint and responsibility, the ancient awareness that we are interdependent with all of nature and that our sense of community must take in the whole of creation.

Donald Worster

#9. I love 'Die Hard,' man. It's the best.

Reid Carolin

#10. I'm already a monster!" she shrieked.
"No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

Philip Reeve

#11. The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. The world won't wait for you to change, not ever. You either take a chance or you stay in one place while everything else goes on.

Megan Hart

#13. The Norns themselves have come to read your fate. - Sam

Rick Riordan

#14. Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Graydon Carter

#15. I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Harvey Pekar

#16. (Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.

Tanith Lee