The Taverner Novels Quotes

“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back with the sun, its wave turn-over small, delicate and comfortless. The most glorious of all stars hung above the sun's threshold and went out. An hour later the sun governed the earth again, mist-chasing, flower-opening, bird-rousing, ghost-driving, spirit-shepherding back out the various gates of sleep.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

“Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner

“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.”
― Mary Butts, The Taverner Novels: Armed with Madness and Death of Felicity Taverner