Mr Norrell Quotes
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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
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