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.
("Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell")
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Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.Susanna Clarke
Beware Stephen! There will probably be a magical combat of some sort. I daresay I shall have to take on different forms - cockatrice, raw head and bloody bones, rains of fire, etc., etc. You may wish to stand back a little!
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In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.
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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.
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Yet it is true-skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity-like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.
Susanna Clarke
To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
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