Amber > Amber's Quotes

“Lord Macon:"Went for a wee nightly run. Needed peace and quiet. Needed air in my fur. Needed fields under my paws. Needed, oh I canna -hic- explain...needed the company of hegehogs."
Professor Lyall:"And did you find it?"
Lord Macon:"Find what? No hedgehogs. Stupid hedgehogs.”
― Gail Carriger Blameless, Blameless

“She hasn't caught a slight fatality, has she?”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“Tunstell was revoltingly bouncy, and Floote had refused to accompany them to Scotland on the grounds that he might be suffocated by an overabundance of bustle.”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“is to marvel that the randomness of human variation can produce something so supernaturally perfect as this.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.”
― Diane Setterfield

“They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale