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Top 300 Susanna Clarke Quotes (2025 Update)
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Susanna Clarke Quote: “Where in the world have you been?” demanded Strange. “Walking,” she said. Her voice was just as it had always been. “Walking! Arabella, are you quite mad? In three feet of snow? Where?” “In the dark woods,” she said, “among my soft-sleeping brothers and sisters. Across the high moors among the sweet-scented ghosts of my brothers and sisters long dead. Under the grey sky through the dreams and murmurs of my brothers and sisters yet to come.” Strange stared at her. “What?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “She had the sweetest way of saying my name and smiling at the same time, and every time she did so, my heart turned over.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The House was particularly silent. No birds flew; no birds sang. Where had they all gone? It seemed they found the cloud-haunted World as oppressive as I did. In the Sixth Western Hall I found them at last. They were gathered there, perched on the Shoulders and Heads of every Statue, on Plinths and on Columns, sitting silently, waiting.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Batter-Sea is not a word,’ I said at last. ‘It has no referent. There is nothing in the World corresponding to that combination of sounds.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day’s work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Today the subject of my research is’ – at this point he looked up from what he was doing and smiled at me – ‘you.’ He has a most charming smile when he remembers to use it. ‘Really?’ I said. ‘What are you trying to find out? Do you have a hypothesis about me?’ ‘I do.’ ‘What is it?’ ‘I can’t tell you that. It might influence the data.’ ‘Oh! Yes. That is true. Sorry.’ ‘That’s OK,’ he said. ‘It’s natural to be curious.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The dialogue that happened between the ancients and the world was not simply something that happened in their heads; it was something that happened in the actual world. The way the Ancients perceived the world was the way the world truly was. This gave them extraordinary influence and power. Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue – intelligible and articulate – it was also persuadable.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I have known for many years that The Other does not revere the House in the same way I do, but it still shocks me when he talks like this. How can a man as intelligent as him say there is nothing alive in this House?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I will concentrate on lending you the strength of my Spirit,’ I said. ‘Fine. Good. You do that.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Brilliant! Thank you! But what I value even more than the shoes themselves is the proof they give of our friendship! I consider the possession of such a friend as you to be one of the greatest happinesses of my Life!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I am not home. I am here.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Oh, quite!” agreed Byron. “I was with him again a few hours ago and could not get him to talk of any thing but his dead wife and how she is not really dead, but merely enchanted. And now he shrouds himself in Darkness and works Black Magic! There is something rather admirable in all this, do you not agree?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Several people seized Strange bodily. One man started shaking him vigorously, as though he thought that he might in this way dispel any magic before it took effect.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “She preferred those occupations that require no companion. She walked alone, rad alone, sat alone in the sittingroom or in the ray of faint sunshine which sometimes penetrated the little courtyard ab about one o’clock. She was less open-hearted and confiding than before; it was as if someone – not necessarily Jonathan Strange – had disappointed her and she was determined to be more independent in future. pg. 675.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I rained every time I moved.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Let us examine the case of rings. Rings have long been considered peculiarly suitable for this sort of magic by virtue of their small size.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In the Air he was a miraculous being – a Heavenly Being – but on the Stones of the Pavement he was mortal and subject to the same embarrassments and clumsiness as other mortals.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Byron!” exclaimed the little man. “Really? Dear me! Mad, and a friend of Lord Byron!” He sounded as if he did not know which was worse.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature – all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband’s happiness than mere transient beauty.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The rooks made a fuss at my approach. Yes, yes. I am glad to see you too, I told them. Only I have things to do today and cannot stop for a long conversation.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “I left the Embrace of the Faun and wandered miserably through the House. I believed that I was mad – or that I had been mad – or else that I was becoming mad now. Whichever way it was, it was a terrifying prospect. After a while I decided that this way of going on did no good at all.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “He has a most charming smile when he remembers to use it.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Once again I took my Index and Journals to the Fifth Northern Hall and sat down opposite the Statue of the Gorilla. May his Strength and Resolution give me courage!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Mr Murray was sorry to find that his two authors could not agree better, but he reflected that it probably could not be helped since both men were famous for quarrelling: Strange with Norrell, and Byron with practically everybody.3 When.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Why do pretty women always have such herds of relatives?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “But according to the Essay on the Extraordinary Revival of English Magic we have no business even to wonder about such things. According to Mr NORRELL and Lord PORTISHEAD the Modern Magician ought not to meddle with things only half-understood. But I say that it is precisely because these things are only half-understood that we must study them.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “There is a thing that I know but always forget: Winter is hard.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “We lapsed into silence again. There seemed nothing more to say. I was shocked by his description of 16’s wickedness. To be opposed to Reason itself!”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Its surface repelled Water, like something meant to live in Air.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In general, London found him disappointing. He did no magic, cursed no one, foretold nothing. Once at Mrs Godesdone’s house he was heard to remark that he thought it might rain, but this, if a prophecy, was a disappointing one, for it did not rain – indeed no rain fell until the following Saturday.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “What I’m trying to get at,’ he says, ‘is whether Dr Ketterley persuaded you to go anywhere. Whether he kept you anywhere against your will. Whether you were free to come and go.’ ‘Yes. I was free. I came and went. I did not remain in one place. I walked for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “His mouth was long and mobile, red and oddly wet.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “In May 1976 Arne-Sayles wrote a letter to the director of the museum, asking to borrow the head so that he could perform a magical rite of his own invention, transfer the seer’s knowledge to himself and so usher in a New Age for Mankind. To Arne-Sayles’s astonishment, the director refused.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “If magic does not have friends in Yorkshire where may we find them?”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The intention of the French was to cruise about the Bay of Biscay looking for British ships to capture or, if they were unable to do that, to prevent the British from doing any thing which they appeared to want to do.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “And yet, you know,” continued Lady Pole, scarcely attending to her, “battles have been fought at some time or other almost everywhere. I remember learning in my schoolroom how London was once the scene of a particularly fierce battle. The people were put to death in horrible ways and the city was burnt to the ground. We are surrounded by the shadows of violence and misery all the days of our life and it seems to me that it matters very little whether any material sign remains or not.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics – in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Sir Doctor, we esteem very much the Hexenmeister of the Great Vellinton.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Ah, but, sir,” said Lascelles, “it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people’s work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one’s own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one’s theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “The old man was as passionately fond of science as we were. He knew how the World was made and was eager to pass that knowledge on to me.”
Susanna Clarke Quote: “It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.”
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