“He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It is… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“The love of the painter standing alone and staring, staring at the great coloured surface he is making. Standing with him in… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.' Fuchsia started to chew at a fresh grass blade. 'Someone… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me. — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized. — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Directly Mr Pye stepped ashore he heard her voice. 'The name is Dredger,' it said. Mr Pye lifted his head again, his… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leaves and flowers.… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Behind him she saw something which by contrast with the alien incalculable figure before her, was close and real. It was something which she… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls - The Consumptive.… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Would you be so kind as to remove your redundant carcass from the door of this room, my man,’ he said, in his high,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Before it had awoke to die on the instant of its waking, a score of bells and clocks had shouted midday and for a… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
