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She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see. — Susanna Clarke

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. — Susanna Clarke

After all," he thought, "what can a magician do against a lead ball? Between the pistol firing and his heart exploding, there is no time for magic. — Susanna Clarke

Sir Doctor, we esteem very much the Hexenmeister of the Great Vellinton. — Susanna Clarke

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

[A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear. — Susanna Clarke

One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind. — Susanna Clarke

I shall advise all the good-looking women of my acquaintance not to die — Susanna Clarke

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ... Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. — Susanna Clarke

Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are. — Susanna Clarke

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why. — Susanna Clarke

Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it. — Susanna Clarke

Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence. — Susanna Clarke

The Pillar of Darkness has been a horror confined to Venice, which seemed - to the Paduans at least - a natural setting for horrors. — Susanna Clarke

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. — Susanna Clarke

A cold, miserable little hamlet on the eastern coast of America called Piper's Grave. — Susanna Clarke

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. — Susanna Clarke

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not? — Susanna Clarke

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one — Susanna Clarke

Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two. — Susanna Clarke

Even a magician must have relations, — Susanna Clarke

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest — Susanna Clarke

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

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most. — Susanna Clarke

Have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind. — Susanna Clarke

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. — Susanna Clarke

In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined. — Susanna Clarke

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply. — Susanna Clarke

There are some things which have no business being put into books for all the world to read. — Susanna Clarke

It sometimes happens that when one acts quickly and with great resolve, all the indecisiveness and doubt comes afterwards, when it is too late. So — Susanna Clarke

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office. — Susanna Clarke

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same. — Susanna Clarke

Sometimes you my graciously permit all the most beautiful ladies in the land to wait in line to kiss your hands and fall in love with you. — Susanna Clarke

Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. — Susanna Clarke

She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing). — Susanna Clarke

Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things - prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast. — Susanna Clarke

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it. — Susanna Clarke

Byron!" exclaimed the little man. "Really? Dear me! Mad, and a friend of Lord Byron!" He sounded as if he did not know which was worse. — Susanna Clarke

I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce. — Susanna Clarke

For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may. — Susanna Clarke

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. — Susanna Clarke

I only wish he had not married," said Mr. Norell fretfully. "Magicians have no business marrying. — Susanna Clarke

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation ... — Susanna Clarke

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. — Susanna Clarke

and a couple of days later he sent Strange a haggis (a sort of Scotch pudding) as a present. — Susanna Clarke

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time. — Susanna Clarke

But, though French, she was also very brave... — Susanna Clarke

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives. — Susanna Clarke

But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently. — Susanna Clarke

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book! — Susanna Clarke

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer. — Susanna Clarke

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

O, wherever men of my sort used to go, long ago. Wandering on paths that other men have not seen. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain. — Susanna Clarke

You must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way. — Susanna Clarke

Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of great
need. Only in England is it part of the constitution. — Susanna Clarke

Erhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss? — Susanna Clarke

I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could. — Susanna Clarke

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it. — Susanna Clarke

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. — Susanna Clarke

..(As to what they might be resting upon, Stephen was determined not to consider). — Susanna Clarke

One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants. — Susanna Clarke

Mr. Honeyfoot did not propose going quite so far
indeed he did not wish to go far at all because it was winter and the roads where very shocking. — Susanna Clarke

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they? — Susanna Clarke

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. — Susanna Clarke

In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I — Susanna Clarke

Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage ... — Susanna Clarke

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. — Susanna Clarke

It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.' — Susanna Clarke

The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by — Susanna Clarke

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded. — Susanna Clarke

...hatching his poems.. — Susanna Clarke

It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome. — Susanna Clarke

There must come a time when the bullets will run out — Susanna Clarke

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made. — Susanna Clarke

Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship. — Susanna Clarke

Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How — Susanna Clarke

Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions. — Susanna Clarke

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars. — Susanna Clarke

One day," he said,"I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you. — Susanna Clarke

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs. — Susanna Clarke

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends. — Susanna Clarke

But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define. — Susanna Clarke

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic. — Susanna Clarke

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did. — Susanna Clarke

a book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic. — Susanna Clarke

Both had indulged in, if not Black Magic, then certainly magic of a darker hue than seemed desirable or legitimate. — Susanna Clarke

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' — Susanna Clarke

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. — Susanna Clarke

I hope there may be bogs and that John McKenzie may drown in them. — Susanna Clarke

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes. — Susanna Clarke

And such a pinched-looking ruin of a thing now! I shall advice all the good-looking woman of my acquaintance not to die. — Susanna Clarke

It was an old fashioned house
the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. — Susanna Clarke

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out. — Susanna Clarke

He hoped his enemies all had reason to fear him and his friends reason to love him ... — Susanna Clarke

He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English. — Susanna Clarke

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

To be more precise it was the color of heartache. — Susanna Clarke

To a magician there is very little difference between a mirror and a door. — Susanna Clarke