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But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved. — Mervyn Peake

I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum — Mervyn Peake

Why break the heart that never beat from love? — Mervyn Peake

Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes. — Mervyn Peake

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. — Mervyn Peake

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order ... — Mervyn Peake

I am clever enough to know that I am clever. — Mervyn Peake

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. — Mervyn Peake

The castle was round and about them, widespread and as unchartable as a dark day. — Mervyn Peake

If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 — Mervyn Peake

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money — Mervyn Peake

Oh how I hate people! — Mervyn Peake

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me. — Mervyn Peake

He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor. — Mervyn Peake

She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun. — Mervyn Peake

For what is more lovable than failure? — Mervyn Peake

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. — Mervyn Peake

It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off — Mervyn Peake

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home. — Mervyn Peake

For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork. — Mervyn Peake

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. — Mervyn Peake

In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.

- One Day When They Had Settled Down — Mervyn Peake

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous. — Mervyn Peake

Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening? — Mervyn Peake

It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined. — Mervyn Peake

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. — Mervyn Peake

Mount and begone. The world awaits you. — Mervyn Peake

To live at all is miracle enough. — Mervyn Peake

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone. — Mervyn Peake

Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized. — Mervyn Peake

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. — Mervyn Peake

I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today. — Mervyn Peake

I do not understand your love,' he said. — Mervyn Peake

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held ... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell — Mervyn Peake

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles. — Mervyn Peake

I am the wilderness lost in man. — Mervyn Peake

His voice is unmuffled - it is like a bell, clearly ringing in the night of our confusion; but the clarity is the clarity of imponderable depth ... — Mervyn Peake

He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention. — Mervyn Peake

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless. — Mervyn Peake

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake

Civilized people don't feel. — Mervyn Peake

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different. — Mervyn Peake

I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin. — Mervyn Peake

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. — Mervyn Peake

Let them touch him. For every hair that's hurt I'll stop a heart. — Mervyn Peake