Michael Pryor Quotes

This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people.

There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.

I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are ... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.

I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.

This first part may be a little rough.' He waved a hand and did his best to appear as if he'd had enormous experience with levitating buildings.

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

Caroline rose. She studied him for a moment before sitting on his knee.
He wasn't quite sure exactly how it happened. If pressed, he would have asked for three or four hundred pages to write a description of the series of impossibly graceful bendings and movements that ended with her perched there with one hand on his shoulder. He didn't understand - and he was sure that it defied physics - how Caroline could be so light on that tiny patch of his legs, and yet so weighty in the way her presence affected him. Her gaze, for instance, probably clocked in at about fifty or sixty tons, to judge from the effect it was having on him.
He never wanted to move. Never, ever, ever. Let the heat death of the universe come along and he'd be quite happy to still have Caroline Hepworth sitting just like that, on his knee, looking at him without speaking. The tiny light of the shaded lantern was irrelevant. He saw everything, as if it were the brightest of middays.
It was so perfect, so hoped for, that Aubrey knew it couldn't last. He glanced around.
'What are you doing?' Caroline asked very, very softly.
'Looking for whoever is going to interrupt us.'
'That's a pessimistic outlook.'
'Wars, especially, have a habit of ignoring the lives of people.'
'If you follow that through, it suggests living for the moment is best.'
'Live without planning? Without dreams? That sounds rather limited.'
'And that sounds rather like Aubrey.

Is it safe?" Evadne asked.
"In the heart of the lair of prehistoric people who eat humans? Probably not." Pg 197

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