Just finished this book... Come across interesting lines and stuffs...
"Dreams, were like soap bubbles. You could look at them from a distance, and they were lovely. It's when you stuck your face too close that your eyes wound up stinging. "
"... the word evil. Scramble it a little, and you get vile and live. Good, on the other hand, is just a command to go do. ... Veil, another anagram for evil; for the things we hide."
".. word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted at you to make you bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to you to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path."
"language was a force to be reckoned with.... live by three rules. The first was thoughts and deeds were inextrocably linked. ... The second rule was that individual thoughts were less important that the collective knowledge of the elders - in other words, so whatecer you're told and stop complaining. ... The third rule, that idea that words were so powerful they had the ability to change someone else's mind... even if they remained unspoken."
"They were not, as most people believed, a hundred different Eskimos words for snow. ... there are 15: qanuk (snowflake), kanevvluk (fine snow), natquik (drifting snow), nevluk (clinging snow), qanikcaq (snow on the ground), maruaneq (soft, deep snow on the ground), qetrar (crust on top of snow), nutaryuk (fresh fallen snow), qanisqineq (snow floating on water), qengaruk (snowbank), utvak (snow block), navcaq (snow cornice), pirta (snowstorm), cellallir (blizzard), and pirrelvag (severely storming)."
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." - Demosthenes
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