“Do not look for revelations in the ancient ruins. You will find here only what you bring: bits of memory, wisps of the past as thin as clouds in the summer, fragments of stone that are carved with symbols that sometimes almost make sense.”
— Notes for City of Stones by Elizabeth Butler (p. 10)
“Someone once told me that archaeologists are anthropologists who don’t like live people. They dig up dead ones because dead ones can’t talk back. That’s not quite true. But I think live people are too fast for most archaeologists. We’re a slow-moving lot. We look at a change in pottery technology that took a hundred years and say that’s pretty quick. We’re used to taking our time.”
— Chapter 6 (p. 84)
““Let it be. These things have a way of becoming clear over time,“ Gyro said. And then he shrugged. “Or not. In the end, it doesn’t really matter does it?””
— Chapter 3 (p. 50)
““You’ve passed the first test of leadership. You’ve disagreed with me.””
— Chapter 3 (p. 66)
“Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?”
— Chapter 10 (p. 183)
““Imaginary solutions work quite well, as long as you realize that problems are also imaginary.””
— Chapter 15 (p. 259)

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