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Susanna Clarke Quote: “Lord Wellington is in the Lines.” It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “And so I have to ask Myself: whose memory is at fault? Mine or his? Might he in fact be remembering conversations that never happened?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I have to consider the needs of the Biscuit-Box Man – and the Folded-Up Child – and the People of the Alcove. They only have me to take care of them. They are in unfamiliar surroundings and may feel disconcerted. I have to return them to their appointed places.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “They were all enamoured with the idea of progress and believed that whatever was new must be superior to what was old. As if merit was a function of chronology!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Bonifazia was an excellent servant, but much inclined to criticism and long explanations of why the instructions she had just been given were wrong or impossible to carry out.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The Beams of the Declining Sun shone through the Windows of the Lower Halls, striking the Surface of the Waves and making ripples of golden Light flow across the Ceiling of the Staircase and over the Faces of the Statues.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Chaston wrote that a great many fairies harboured a vague sense of having been treated badly by the English. Though it was a mystery to Chaston – as it is to me – why they should have thought so. In the houses of the great English magicians fairies were the first among the servants and sat in the best places after the magician and his lady.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Today it stopped raining. The World became light of Heart again.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “It is January and I am arriving at an English country house in Yorkshire. Fog and rain shroud the park. The interior is a dim labyrinth of splendid but desolate rooms, full of winter shadows and echoing footsteps.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Ketterley shrugged. ‘A vision of cosmic grandeur, I suppose. A symbol of the mingled glory and horror of existence. No one gets out alive.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “On the other side of the Courtyard I saw the Other looking out of a Window. The Window was tall and dark; the Other’s noble head with its high forehead and neatly trimmed beard was framed in one Corner. He was lost in thought as he so often is. I waved to him. He did not see me. I waved more extravagantly. I jumped up and down with great energy. But the Windows of the House are many and he did not see me.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “That was the clock striking half-past one o’clock!” said Drawlight suddenly. “How lonely it sounds! Ugh! All the horrid things one reads of in novels always happen just as the church bell tolls or the clock strikes some hour or other in a dark house!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Sir Walter took this to mean he had not –which Sir Walter was glad of, for Sir Walter thought a great deal of a man’s having a profession and believed that useful, steady occupation might cure many things which other remedies could not.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Raphael nodded slowly. ‘That’s OK,’ she said. ‘There’s plenty of time.’ She put out her hand and rather awkwardly – but also gently – put her hand on my shoulder. Instantly, and to my huge embarrassment, I started crying. Great creaking sobs rose up in my chest and tears sprouted from my eyes. I did not think that it was me who was crying; it was Matthew Rose Sorensen crying through my eyes. It lasted for a long time until it tailed off into braying, hiccupping gulps for Air.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “He stood motionless for a long moment. I had told him to reflect on his wickedness. Was that what he was doing? Suddenly he knelt and began to write rapidly. No one has ever written to me before.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “If ever I find your remains I will bring you offerings of food and drink. If it seems to me that no one living is caring for you then I will gather up your bones and bring them to my own Halls. I will put you in good order and lay you with my own Dead. Then you will not be alone.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “A heap of shining guineas was lying there. Mrs Brandy picked up one of the coins and examined it. It was as though she held a ball of soft yellow light with a coin at the bottom of it.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can chuse something better than magic! It has no practical application.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Napoleon Buonaparte, it was said, was scouring France to find a magician of his own – but with no success. In London the Ministers were quite astonished to find that, for once, they had done something the Nation approved.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The little man was all smiling acquiescence.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “This unsightly condition is only temporary. Don’t be sad. Don’t fear. I will place you somwhere where the fish and the birds can strip away all this broken flesh. It will soon be gone. Then you will be a handsome skull and handsome bones. I will put you in good order and you can rest in the Sunlight and Starlight.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I have never seen any indication that the World was coming to an End, but only the regular progression of Halls and Passageways into the Far Distance.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows us, and Lord! how uncomfortable we become!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Raphael left, disappearing into the Shadowy Space between the two Minotaurs in the South-Eastern Corner of the Vestibule.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “You have come here to build a nest. But you cannot find the materials you need. There is only cold, wet seaweed and you need something drier to make a cosy nest for your egg. Do not worry. I will help you. I have a supply of dry seaweed. Speaking as a non-avian, I feel sure that this would be a highly suitable building material. I will go and fetch it immediately.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “It contained a spell for turning Members of Parliament into useful members of society and now, just when Uncle Auberon thought he had a use for it, he could not find it.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “According to the second system I have given the years names like ‘The Year I named the Constellations’ and ‘The Year I counted and named the Dead’. I like this much more. It gives each year a character of its own. This is the system I shall use going forward.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Sir, please do not do that,’ I said. ‘The Other says that 16 is a malevolent person.’ ‘Malevolent? I wouldn’t say so. No more than most people.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Some halls are blocked, while others are flooded. And.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I have never seen a live monkey in the House.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Ela usava um vestido da cor das tempestades, das sombras e da chuva, e um colar de promessas quebradas e arrependimentos.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “He had a very young man’s belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else’s.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The brown fields were partly flooded; they were strung with chains of chill, grey pools. The pattern of the pools had meaning. The pools had been written on to the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “There are some things which have no business being put into books for all the world to read.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “But for the rest nothing amused him; nothing satisfied him. All was shadows, emptiness, echoes and dust.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I no longer feel quite so alarmed when a nonsensical word in my Journal gives rise to a mental image that I cannot account for. Do not be anxious, I tell Myself. It is the House. It is the House enlarging your understanding.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Strange finished: “People have such odd notions about magicians. They wanted me to tell them about vampyres.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Without the journals I would be all at sea.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician.”
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