The Desert of Souls Quotes

“I think that in the darkness beneath the stars the desert evokes even more loneliness than the sea.”
― Howard Andrew Jones, The Desert of Souls

“Behold the artist’s trick,’ he said to me with an amused smile. ‘A thousand years ago he fashioned this piece.’ “I saw no trick and looked back and forth between him and the art, wondering at his words. “ ‘Now his work pleases us,’ the scholar continued, ‘two men he never met. Perhaps it will delight other unknown men in a thousand more, when we two are as forgotten as he. The artist defeats the ages.”
― Howard Andrew Jones, The Desert of Souls