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If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies. — Karen Maitland

Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards. — Karen Maitland

If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa] — Karen Maitland

God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can the devil's — Karen Maitland

Et moriendo docebo - I will teach you how to die. — Karen Maitland

His words burn like acid. — Karen Maitland

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath. — Karen Maitland

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London. — Karen Maitland

I got fascinated by the silence and by what happens when you venture out in that enormous emptiness — Sarah Maitland

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. — Sara Maitland

Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

He will not tell them that it lives, that it escaped them, That will be his treasured secret. — Karen Maitland

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men. — Karen Maitland

occasionally or alternately I should not complain, — Frederick Lewis Maitland

Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled. — Karen Maitland

I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

There was a man with the sun in the place of his head and a woman with the moon instead of a face. — Karen Maitland

You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard] — Stephen Maitland-Lewis

On the shelves of her uncle's shop a jar contains the powdered skull of a suicide, a well-known cure for the falling sickness. — Karen Maitland

He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix] — Karen Maitland

Edah Amsellah - The Tears of the Dragon — Karen Maitland

there is an interior dimension to silence, a sort of stillness of heart and mind which is not a void but a rich space. — Sara Maitland

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were. — Karen Maitland

Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive. — Karen Maitland

I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

You will sleep till the stars fall from the heavens ans the seas turn into dust. [Father Arthmael] — Karen Maitland

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others. — Karen Maitland

Besides, I'm not sure they let ferrets into Heaven and I'd miss old Mavet. — Karen Maitland

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him. — Sara Maitland

We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence. — Karen Maitland

Art is an artificial organization of experience ... — Sara Maitland

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten. — Karen Maitland

The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other. — Sara Maitland

Maybe that is what Hell is, being trapped for ever in your own nightmares and never being able to wake. [Gisa] — Karen Maitland

Curiosity was always my weakness and, once more, it got the better of me. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. — Sara Maitland

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward. — Sara Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. — Karen Maitland

She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour. — Karen Maitland

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. — Frederic William Maitland

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world. — Karen Maitland

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose. — Karen Maitland

Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love. — Karen Maitland

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone. — Sara Maitland

He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are — Karen Maitland

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future. — Frederic William Maitland

The earth makes creatures well again. When you are sick you are put to bed, and when you are very sick, you are put into the earth to make you well. — Karen Maitland

You bear the mark of the ouroboros, the sign of eternal life. And what is that circle, but the shadow of the sun itself. — Karen Maitland

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you. — Karen Maitland

Even when you're terrified, or because fear sharpens the mind, you get flashes of blinding comprehension. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity. — Sara Maitland

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false. — Karen Maitland

It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland