Quotes About Inlaid

Symbols are lovingly inlaid to add to a second or third reading, and even to change radically if you combine them. Symbols have that capacity; they are not ciphers that remain immutable.

Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold!

HARRY DRESDEN. Then a gold-inlaid pentacle, a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle—the symbol of the forces of magic contained within mortal will. Underneath it are more letters: HE DIED DOING THE RIGHT THING.