“Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Beware Stephen! There will probably be a magical combat of some sort. I daresay I shall have to take on different forms… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I hope there may be bogs and that John McKenzie may drown in them.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.” — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them,… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“a tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister’s desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Some time later there was a knock at his door. He was surprised to find it was now evening and the room… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“As [Norrell] watched she was seized by a fit of coughing that continued for some moments, and during that time Sir Walter… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“John Longridge, the cook at Harley-street, had suffered from low spirits for more than thirty years, and he was quick to welcome… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Mr Norrell was delighted. He did not believe that anyone had ever proposed such a piece of magic before and begged Sir Walter to… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
