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“The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3

“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

“You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'
...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation...”
― Susanna Clarke

“I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“A Man Without Honor
is Worse than Dead.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

from "Gentleman Rankers”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“My heart is so tired”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“The Stars.
Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves.

From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies and nebulae, and thinking they were not as wide as the distances between people.

In the study Claudia sensed them, in the sparks and crackles on the screen.

In the prison, Attia dreamt of them, She sat curled on the hard chair, Rix repacking his hidden pockets obsessively with coins and glass discs and hidden handkerchiefs.

A single spark flickered deep in the coin Keiro spun and caught, spun and caught.”
― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique

“Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.”
― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique

“None of us know who we are any more.”
― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique