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| 86f43b7 | And how to describe a London party? Candles in lustres of cut-glass are placed everywhere about the house in dazzling profusion; elegant mirrors triple and quadruple the light until night outshines day; many-coloured hot-house fruits are piled up in stately pyramids upon white-clothed tables; divine creatures, resplendent with jewels, go about the room in pairs, arm in arm, admired by all who see them. Yet the heat is over-powering, the pre.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| eb44d6e | Both had indulged in, if not Black Magic, then certainly magic of a darker hue than seemed desirable or legitimate. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| de4b030 | My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 1d1112e | Had it not been for Mr. Drawlight and Mr. Lascelles (benevolent souls!) the Town would have been starved of information of any sort, but they drove diligently about London making their appearance in a quite impossible number of drawing-rooms, morning-rooms, dining-rooms and card-rooms. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| faf91bc | Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 8e39502 | he belonged to a certain breed of gentlemen, only to be met with in London, whose main occupation is the wearing of expensive and fashionable clothes; how they pass their lives in ostentatious idleness, gambling and drinking to excess and spending months at a time in Brighton and other fashionable watering places; how in recent years this breed seemed to have reached a sort of perfection in Christopher Drawlight. Even his dearest friends wo.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 93a2ff4 | Even a magician must have relations, | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 758eb08 | About five years later, in 1445, Domenico married Susanna Fontanarossa. Sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1451, probably in September or October, their son Christopher was born. St. Christopher's day was celebrated on 25 July, and one biographer speculates that Columbus may have been born on or near that date.5 Whatever the reasons for the choice of the name, it proved to be prophetic. | Clark B. Hinckley | ||
| 763f6b4 | the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 56ff76f | it seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass - not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led them. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 1d3333d | There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 2b8c75b | In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 83c15c2 | I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could." | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 3cb91b3 | It was a dark day. A chill wind blew snowflakes against the window of Mr Norrell's library where Childermass sat writing business letters. Though it was only ten o'clock in the morning the candles were already lit. The only sounds were the coals being consumed in the grate and the scratch of Childermass's pen against the paper. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 6d3e877 | bleak, wind-swept fens and moors; empty fields with broken walls and gates hanging off their hinges; a black, ruined church; an open grave; a suicide buried at a lonely crossroads; a fire of bones blazing in the twilit snow; a gallows with a man swinging from its arm; another man crucified upon a wheel; an ancient spear plunged into the mud with a strange talisman, like a little leather finger, hanging from it; a scarecrow whose black rags .. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| c0e30fe | The idea of forty precious volumes being taken into a country in a state of war where they might get burnt, blown up, drowned or dusty was almost too horrible to contemplate. Mr Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might - horror of horrors! - read them and try the spells! Could sold.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 91c9a89 | Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| a1e48d0 | she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| b9b5e81 | 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 | ||
| 740efc0 | Several people seized Strange bodily. One man started shaking him vigorously, as though he thought that he might in this way dispel any magic before it took effect. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 648b856 | Lord Wellington is in the Lines." It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk." | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 8736b76 | There are some things which have no business being put into books for all the world to read. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 00c00cc | She preferred those occupations that require no companion. She walked alone, rad alone, sat alone in the sittingroom or in the ray of faint sunshine which sometimes penetrated the little courtyard ab about one o'clock. She was less open-hearted and confiding than before; it was as if someone -- not necessarily Jonathan Strange -- had disappointed her and she was determined to be more independent in future. pg. 675 | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 8476ca8 | He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 527564a | Nothing, I believe, inspires a man with such eagerness to begin his day's work as the sight of his instruments neatly laid out | Susanna Clarke | ||
| bdda149 | After she was bedridden for several years, she seemed kind of hollow. I started avoiding her because I was so uncomfortable on the phone with her and seeing her like that. Once in a while there'd be a little glimmer of the old Susanna, but mostly just this hollow face. It's really sad. | Tamara Saviano | ||
| 163f9fa | Mr Segundus found two stone dragons no longer than his forearm, which slipped one after the other, over and under and between stone hawthorn branches, stone hawthorn leaves, stone hawthorn roots and stone hawthorn tendrils. They moved, it seemed, with as much ease as any other creature and yet the sound of so many stone muscles moving together under a stone skin, that scraped stone ribs, that clashed against a heart made of stone - and the .. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 5615de0 | In general, London found him disappointing. He did no magic, cursed no one, foretold nothing. Once at Mrs Godesdone's house he was heard to remark that he thought it might rain, but this, if a prophecy, was a disappointing one, for it did not rain - indeed no rain fell until the following Saturday. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| e4c0e72 | The walls were hung with a series of gigantic paintings in gilded frames of great complexity, all depicting the city of Venice, but the day was overcast, a cold stormy rain had set in, and Venice - that city built of equal parts of sunlit marble and sunlit sea - was drowned in a London gloom. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 86bbba1 | But as to how the food is conveyed to her," exclaimed Miss Greysteel, "no one knows for certain. Signor Tosetti believes that her cats carry it up to her." "Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfe.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| e8a0f8e | Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 03ad505 | Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness an an excess of any thing else. Truth to tell, I was not quite myself for a time. Truth to tell, I was a little wild. | madness | Susanna Clarke | |
| d42b621 | Stephen began to dream again. This time he dreamt that hills walked and the sky wept. Trees came and spoke to him and told him their secrets and also whether or not he might regard them as friends or enemies. Important destinies were hidden inside pebbles and crumpled leaves. He dreamt that everything in the world - stones and rivers, leaves and fire - had a purpose which it was determined to carry out with the utmost rigour, but he also un.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 38603d9 | If magic does not have friends in Yorkshire where may we find them? | susanna-clarke | Susanna Clarke | |
| e62c663 | Sir Walter took this to mean he had not -which Sir Walter was glad of, for Sir Walter thought a great deal of a man's having a profession and believed that useful, steady occupation might cure many things which other remedies could not. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 379648d | Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers - and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful .. | clever-man jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell magic sly susanna-clarke | Susanna Clarke | |
| ab1127d | There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies. | jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell magic magic-of-books | Susanna Clarke | |
| e96272b | Napoleon Buonaparte, it was said, was scouring France to find a magician of his own - but with no success. In London the Ministers were quite astonished to find that, for once, they had done something the Nation approved. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 8efe6ef | Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one's bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 32bf92a | A man as talented and handsome as yourself ought not be a servant!" he said in a shocked tone. "He ought to be the ruler of a vast estate! What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a visible sign of one's superiority to everyone else? But I see how it is! Your enemies have conspired together to deprive you of all your possessions and to cast you down among the ignorant and lowly!" | Susanna Clarke | ||
| d37c860 | What nobility of feeling!" he cried. "To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! Well, it is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me." | Susanna Clarke | ||
| d22d24c | There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine. Why not come and be contrary with me? | personality | Susanna Clarke | |
| 0a17d1a | I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness! | Susanna Clarke | ||
| b915a14 | It had so happened that, in the course of his labours on behalf of the little stone figure and the girl with the ivy-leaves in her hair, Mr Honeyfoot had discovered something. He believed that he had identified the murderer as an Avebury man. So he had come to Wiltshire to look at some old documents in Avebury parish church. "For," as he had explained to Mr Segundus, "if I discover who he was, then perhaps it may lead me to discover who was.. | Susanna Clarke |