My Book Bite for the Sunday Times


~"I came to Yaxaktun because nobody can find you here," Ramona said with a shrug. "But it's not the same for others. Others want to be found."~

~Everywhere Montgomery had been he'd spied the same misery under a different guise. In England it was in the factories, in Latin America it was in the fields. There was always someone with a little more money, a little more power, and he owned you.~

~He called her Carlota because it meant "freedom," and he thought it would sit her. Yet in the end she still shared her name with an empress...[who]had gone made after they'd executed her husband...~

~Montgomery suspected the doctor was pleased that he drank. How could he have ever imagined the man might object, he didn't know. It was a way to control him, similar to how he controlled the hybrids, with his sermons and his mystique.~

~If you don't know the soil, then you can understand how to grow new things...~