“We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for ‘Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter.’ He is surprised that the Italians have not done it. Though perhaps they have, and he just never caught on.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
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