Sean Lusk > Quotes

“her clothes the only sign of her former rank, for bones are bones for paupers and queens alike.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“Listen not for words, Cloudesley, but for the timing of silence.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“In my experience if you want to understand a man, speak to him in his own tongue, do not ask him to speak yours.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“What is youth but the mainspring of a timepiece freshly wound, measuring the hours perfectly, ignorant that time must, sooner or later, outpace the tick and tock of his heart, leaving a man to rot until even his bones are turned to dust.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“He is like a clock that tells of time to come and of time past and missed, yet is driven by blood and a beating heart, not by mainsprings and ratchets and bobs of steel and brass.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“What has changed? Your perception, as if a view you have always admired was seen through a thicket of brush, and one day you wake and walk down to admire that same landscape to find that your gardener has cleared it away, and the view seems to you altered. But it is the same, now only seen more clearly. It is you who must adjust, and whose pleasure should be heightened not diminished by the greater clarity you have gained.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“it is his very malleability that is his strength; he is like an army permanently in retreat but never quite defeated, so that one always has to be on one’s guard.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“She is not yet fifty and hopes she might yet find a companion who will look at her with desire, for there is no feeling in the world so fulfilling, as there is none so discouraging as the absence of it. Love is another matter; more important, more durable, but so terrible in its loss that on the whole she thinks it best avoided altogether.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“Yet it also looks a little clumsy, its additions detracting from its looks rather than enhancing them, like a lady finding her beauty spot admired and deciding to wear two dozen.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“There is all manner of learning in this world, my lord, and strange talents in even the humblest soul.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“Living in the country may be but a half-life, but life in London is not whole – it is simply the other half.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

“Ce n’est pas seulement ce que nous faisons, mais aussi ce que nous ne faisons pas, pour lequel nous sommes responsables.”
― Sean Lusk, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley