It’s time for a face to face chat with my…
It’s time for a face to face chat with my old friend Sheriff Truart. Work out our differences, show him the little piece of evidence I lifted from the Mechanists. I’m sure he’ll appreciate the consequences if this were to be made public. Truart was acting for somebody when his cronies ambushed me back at the Crippled Burrick inn… I bet he’ll be happy to tell me who that was.
Thief II: The Metal Age, Quotes by Garrett
Source: Mission VII: Blackmail
Other Thief Quotes
- “Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet ‘gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder’s plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum.” -Collected letters of the smith-in-exile - View Quote Details on “Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and…
- “The knowledge of those who came before could neither be disseminated or destroyed. Its power would be a dangerous tool in the wrong hands, but would also insure against future cataclysm. At that time we chose to maintain it with writings preserved in extant locations.” -Keeper Annals - View Quote Details on “The knowledge of those who came before could neither be…
- “Even With All We Had Learned,
Some Events Were To Prove More Complex Than We Had Predicted.
The Most Unlikely Of Alliances Was Also The Most Effective.” -Chronicle of the Metal Age - View Quote Details on Some Events Were...">“Even With All We Had Learned,
Some Events Were… - I went to Cutty’s place to deliver the scepter, but Cutty wasn’t there. He’d been arrested by the Hammerites. Apparently they didn’t approve of his occupation, and I doubt they approve of mine. So hopefully they’ll never catch sight of me when I break him out of their prison. Which is what I’m going to do. - View Quote Details on I went to Cutty’s place to deliver the scepter, but…
- Garrett: [Makes a sound of contempt.] Keepers!
Keeper: So you think you’ve won.
Garrett: I think I’ve got my eye back.
Keeper: Yet…still…you are blind.
Garrett: If you hadn’t noticed, I just saved the world. Yourself included.
Keeper: As we knew you would. As it had to be.
Garrett: Now I remember why I left the Keepers.
Keeper: And I remember why we let you go.
Garrett: What do you want from me? [Sarcastically] You come to congratulate me? Welcome me back to the fold?
Keeper: Very well. I will speak my piece plainly. You have accomplished that which was written, and YES… you’ve done it well. But there is no place for you with us any longer. Yet you will have a great need of us, and soon.
Garrett: I don’t think so. I’m through with heroics.
Garrett: And with your kind as well.
Keeper: You cannot run from life as you did from us, Garrett. Life has a way of finding you. No matter how artistic a sneak you are. Listen…there is a book that you were not made aware of. I’m here to tell you that it would be WISE for you to read it now…if you can still read hieroglyphs.
Garrett: I do try to forget, but you Keepers leave them everywhere for me.
Keeper: Yes. You have more friends than you know.
Garrett: Tell my “friends” that I don’t need their secret book. Or their glyph warnings, or their messengers! Tell them I’m through! Tell them it’s over! Tell them Garrett is done! (walks away)
Keeper: I will tell them this: Nothing is changed. All is as it was written. The Trickster is dead. Beware the dawn…of the Metal Age. - View Quote Details on Garrett: [Makes a sound of contempt.] Keepers!
Keeper: So… - “The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee.” -The Hammer Book of Tenets - View Quote Details on “The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the…
- “The Builder Has Gifted Thee
With The Greatest Of All Treasures - The Future!
But Thine Own Will Forges The Key That Opens The Lock.” -Karras, Private Correspondence - View Quote Details on With The Greatest Of...">“The Builder Has Gifted Thee
With The Greatest Of… - “He Who Keeps His Work In Disorder Gives Home To Chaos.
Let Him Be Struck With Stone And Iron To Forge Away His Flaws.” -Collected Sermons of Karras - View Quote Details on “He Who Keeps His Work In Disorder Gives Home To… - “Holding a key, you may infer the existence of a lock. However, do not make the mistake of assuming that yours is the only key.” - Handbook of Scribes - View Quote Details on “Holding a key, you may infer the existence of a…
- “Be ever diligent, For thy enemies are a multitude,
And sin never sleeps…” -Excerpt from a Hammer Hymn - View Quote Details on “Be ever diligent, For thy enemies are a multitude,…
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