Adam Foulds > Quotes

“Madness has no sense of humour”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could not withstand it.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“He watched with great pleasure the skill of the men, their knives quick as fish.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“The world is a room full of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“The forest made its little eating sounds.”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“A little terrier caught the scent of John and stood with its four feet planted, leaning towards him, as if in italics, to bark. An”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

“He thought that the edge of the world was a day's walk away, there where the cloud-breeding sky touched the horizon. He thought that when he got there he would find a deep pit and he would be able to look down into it and see the world's secrets.”
― Adam Foulds