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    Susanna Clarke
    “Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
    Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #2
    Scarlett Thomas
    “I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”
    Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

  • #3
    Scarlett Thomas
    “I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?”
    Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?"
    "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?"
    "Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #5
    Frank Stanford
    “because none of you know what you want follow me
    because I'm not going anywhere
    I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
    look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams”
    Frank Stanford

  • #6
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
    to make every moment holy.
    I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
    just to lie before you like a thing,
    shrewd and secretive.
    I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
    as it goes toward action;
    and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,
    when something is coming near,
    I want to be with those who know secret things
    or else alone.
    I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
    and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
    to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
    I want to unfold.
    I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
    because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
    and I want my grasp of things to be
    true before you. I want to describe myself
    like a painting that I looked at
    closely for a long time,
    like a saying that I finally understood,
    like the pitcher I use every day,
    like the face of my mother,
    like a ship
    that carried me
    through the wildest storm of all.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #7
    Claire-Louise Bennett
    “I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.”
    Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

  • #8
    Gaston Bachelard
    “Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.”
    Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space



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