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St. Thomas would have agreed with Leon Bloy, who often wrote that in the end there is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint. — Peter Kreeft

Like the hero of a fairy-tale Mr Norrell had discovered that the power to do what he wished had been his own all along. — Susanna Clarke

Oh, Mr Norrell! Such a noodle I am upon occasion! — Susanna Clarke

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality. — Thomas Griffith

Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love! — Lewis Carroll

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could. — Susanna Clarke

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — T.H. White

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear! — Octavia Spencer

The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. — Douglas Adams

No glass slippers, just a glass heart shattering into a million slivers of regret. — Donna Cooner

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy! — Annie Wood

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. — Tony Robbins

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting. — Susanna Clarke

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. — Haruki Murakami

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. — Alton Brown

Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass.
Childermass shrugged. — Susanna Clarke