Mortal Engines Quotes

#1. I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Marie Curie

#2. What's missing is the eyeballs
in each of us, but it doesn't matter
because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

Anne Sexton

#3. Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#4. Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

Al Ries

#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. 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

#7. You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Richelle Mead

#8. 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

#9. Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. And so we push them away because a twisted logic tells us that we need to protect them from us. And so we push them away because a twisted logic tells us that we need to protect them from us.

Khaya Dlanga