Susanna Clarke

But, though French, she was also very brave...

— Susanna Clarke

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

— Susanna Clarke

“...hatching his poems..”

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“All magicians lie and this one more than most,”

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“I only wish he had not married," said Mr. Norell fretfully. "Magicians have no business marrying.”

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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation...

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There must come a time when the bullets will run out

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“For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.”

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“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”

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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

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You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

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“..(As to what they might be resting upon, Stephen was determined not to consider).”

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“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them,…

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“When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of…

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you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the…

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“..I have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken…

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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to…

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“Sometimes you my graciously permit all the most beautiful ladies in the land to wait in line to kiss your hands and…

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“The pigment must be mixed with the tears of spinsters of good family, who must live long lives of impeccable virtue and…

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“Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.”

— Susanna Clarke

“But though the magician particularly asked to be taken there alone, his dear friends, Mr. Drawlight and Mr. Lascelles, were not so…

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“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to…

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“A lovely young Italian girl passed by. Byron tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his…

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“You think that I am angry, but I am not. You think I do not know why you have done what you…

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“But, curiously, though Mr. Norrell was able to work feats of the most breath-taking wonder, he was only able to describe them…

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But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills…

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“And she was quite tolerable to look at, you say?” said Mr Lascelles. “You never saw her?” said Drawlight. “Oh! she was…

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“Mr. Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of…

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“It is possible, of course,” he said, “to imprison someone within the pattern of a carpet for a thousand years or so.…

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“Some time later there was a knock at his door. He was surprised to find it was now evening and the room…

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“For a moment or two before the spell took effect, he was aware of all the sounds around him: rain splashing on…

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“This young woman," he indicated Miss Wintertowne, "she has, I dare say, all the usual accomplishments and virtues? She was graceful? Witty?…

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“she bore so many of the signs and disfigurings of extreme old age that she was losing her resemblance to other human…

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“Mr Norrell determined to establish himself in London with all possible haste. "You must get a house, Childermass," he said. "Get me…

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“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the…

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I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover…

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“In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I”

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“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”

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“One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind.”

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“I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one”

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