The Gospel of Sheba Quotes

“Why this hobby, Mr. Scovil?” I inquired. “You’ve the means to explore any field you desire, and then add more—form Arctic expeditions, excavate tombs. Why dark magic?” He shrugged in the fashion very rich people do, when the slight flex of a muscle is pleasing to their own bodies. “It’s in the family, as it were. Anyway, why art?” he replied, smiling. “Why hospitals? Why battle and conquest? Why patronage or charity? A man has to have something to work for, doesn’t he, besides money?”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gospel of Sheba

“What odd connections we make as we pass through life—old friends, new ones, perhaps if we’re lucky even ones we’ve brought into being.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gospel of Sheba

“I am not callow enough to suppose that books are not powerful -- on the contrary, a book is the most delicious of paradoxes, an inert collection of symbols which are capable of changing the universe when once the cover is opened.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gospel of Sheba

“Mr. Grange is interested in grimoires and their efficacy. I”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Gospel of Sheba