“The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.”
“Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.”
“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”
“I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in the jungle, just magnificent - time, space, and splendour. Our planet is superb!”
“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the only ones growing, and then they shrank and shrank and shrank… and all the while the children grew sharper.”
“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us grew up playing the same games.”