All Susanna Clarke Quotes
- You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's… Attitude
- How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without… Achieve
- Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each… Accented
- All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes. All
- I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But… Come True
- There must come a time when the bullets will run out Bullets
- Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is… Angel
- Can a magician kill a man by magic?รขโฌย Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. รขโฌลI suppose a magician might,รขโฌย… Admitted
- Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from… Angle
- You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. Became
- To be more precise it was the color of heartache. Color
- And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so… Arrogance
- ..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he… Argument
- He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. Bear
- Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read… Ago
- This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine. Exactly
- He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… Appears
- It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to… Expressed
- Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch. Accented
- After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a… Admiral