“Beneath every history, another history.” – p. 61
“It matters what name we choose, what name we make.” – 165
“There is a world beyond this black world. There is a world of the possible… The moment is fleeting. But insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were before.” – 189
“A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hands and the unguessed-at expression of his face.” – 331
The fate of people is made like this, two men in small rooms… This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase… ” – 566
Awkward Turtle 