## Metadata - Author: [[Josiah Bancroft and Ian Leino]] - Full Title: Arm of the Sphinx - Category: #books ## Highlights - Edith stepped forward briskly and boxed the man on the ear. “That’s enough,” she said as Pencastle swung back around, cradling his ear. “Just because you don’t recognize mercy doesn’t mean you haven’t been shown it.” ([Location 1314](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=1314)) - He could see nothing but the sloshing ink of the unlit water ([Location 1578](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=1578)) - It was a queasy thing to see men turned into missiles, to watch the dead make more dead. ([Location 1618](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=1618)) - the daily goings on of life. Senlin marveled at how adept the human race was at injecting a sense of routine into peculiar environments; it seemed a certainty that once people were added, the mundane was sure to follow. ([Location 2877](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=2877)) - Inspiration never came to her so long as she was sitting still. Adam accused her of wandering off, but what her brother didn’t understand was that her legs pedaled her thoughts. ([Location 2953](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=2953)) - “The origin of a myth is like that of a river. It begins in obscurity as a collection of tentative, unassociated flows. It streams downhill along the path of least resistance, seeking consensus. Other fables join it, and the myth broadens and sets. We build cities on the banks of myth.” ([Location 3753](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00VVHQDA2&location=3753))