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“Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.”
― The Story of Lucy Gault
― The Story of Lucy Gault
“To watch these things issuing from the otherwise mute pastoral morning is a man at the barn door. He is small, unclean, unshaven. He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps. Wasps pass through the laddered light from the barnslats in a succession of strobic moments, gold and trembling between black and black, like fireflies in the serried upper gloom.”
― Child of God
― Child of God
“Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, once you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.”
― Bring Up the Bodies
― Bring Up the Bodies
“When night fell, I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Our desires permeate our perceptions”
― Black Dogs
― Black Dogs
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