Quote by Susanna Clarke

“Mr. Lascelles whispered to Mr. Drawlight that he had not realized before that doing kind actions would lead to his being addressed in familiar…

— Susanna Clarke

“The darkness moved around him, every shadow swaying, dipping, and rolling the way a room did after too many drinks, and woven through it…

— V.E. Schwab

“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city -…

— Mark Billingham

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself…

— Salman Rushdie

“It was nearly eight before he returned to the office. This was the hour when he found London most lovable; the working day over,…

— Robert Galbraith

“If a Victorian gentleman arrived in present-day London, he’d think we’d been invaded by glowing rectangles.”

— Charlie Brooker

“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields and the…

— Virginia Woolf

“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields and the…

— Virginia Woolf

“And if these objecting London-born men stuck their faces past their own dirty alleys — oh, far edges of the world — then they…

— Michelle Butler Hallett

“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.”

— Anna Quindlen

“that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been”

— Charles Dickens

“Lascelles threw himself into the carriage, snorting with laughter and saying that he had never in his life heard of anything so ridiculous and…

— Susanna Clarke