House of Small Shadows Quotes

“The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“Where did fear end and wonder begin?”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“Either the world was unpleasant or she evoked its harms. She was never sure.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“And there appeared to be too many stars in the sky, an incalculable scatter of iridescent debris. She’d thought her feelings of unfamiliarity and vulnerability could not get any worse, but they did. They now stretched into the kind of cosmic perspective she’d forgotten was possible.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“Well, like most sticklers for good manners, she’s as rude as they come.”
― Adam Nevill, House of Small Shadows

“By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One”
― Adam Nevill, The House of Small Shadows