| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 171 | Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-View more quotes about lock">lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces. |
| 2 | 172 | "The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates. |
| 2 | 173 | The Sacred Place, to the minds of most men here, is taboo, perilous. |
| 2 | 174 | Surely none have returned from those mountains". |
| 2 | 175 | My father's eyes seemed faraway, as if focused on sights he might have preferred to forget. |
| 2 | 176 | "Idealists and rebels have been dashed to pieces on the frozen escarpments of those mountains. |
| 2 | 177 | If one approaches the mountains, one must go on foot. |