Gemma

“And where were you?’ he asks. ‘While you were gone?’ ‘I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“All around me doors into other worlds began appearing but I knew the one I wanted, the one into which everything forgotten flows. The edges of that door were frayed and worn by the passage of old ideas leaving the world.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house. Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi