quotes by Michael Cox

"’Your life, your true life, is not here,’—he pointed to his breast and the heart beating within it—‘but here,’ pointing now to his head. “There is your kingdom,’ he said, ‘and it is yours to extend and enrich as you please, to the ends of the earth.’"
— Michael Cox (The Meaning of Night: A Confession)

"I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not."
— Michael Cox (The Meaning of Night: A Confession)

""For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.""
— Michael Cox (The Meaning of Night: A Confession)

"The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal."
— Michael Cox

""Omnia Mutantur..."

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— Michael Cox

"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper."
— Michael Cox

"‘After Killing the red-haired
man, I took myself off to
Quinn’s for an oyster supper…’"
— Michael Cox

"For death is the meaning of night. That eternal shadow into which all lives must fall,all hopes expire."
— Michael Cox (The Glass of Time)