Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone…

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

— Susanna Clarke

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician…

— Susanna Clarke

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office…

— Susanna Clarke

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”

— Susanna Clarke

“...hatching his poems..”

— Susanna Clarke

“It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing…

— Susanna Clarke

“A gentleman in Mr Norell's position with a fine house and a large estate will always be of interest to his neighbors and, unless…

— Susanna Clarke

“I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce.”

— Susanna Clarke

“Long, long ago, (said the voice), five hundred years ago or more, on a winter's day at twilight, a young man entered the Church…

— Susanna Clarke

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

— Susanna Clarke

“Fairies do not make a strong distinction between the animate and the inanimate. They believe that stones, doors, trees, fire, clouds and so forth…

— Susanna Clarke

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

— Susanna Clarke

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity…

— Susanna Clarke

“Mr. Norrell gazed at Strange with an odd expression upon his face as though he would have been glad of a little conversation with…

— Susanna Clarke

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because…

— Susanna Clarke