“"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."”
Ian McDonald book River of Gods
Source: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 19 (p. 239).
“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.”
ibid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_the_Lady
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