The Book of Blasphemous Words Quotes

“I would have felt too afraid even to draw breath were I not also desirous to see whether they would rise or not. Is this what our modern philosophes such as Mr. Burke mean when they speak of a fear that exalts man, a terror that pleases as well as dismays? Or was it simply the madness of my dreaming self?”
― Colin Harker, The Book of Blasphemous Words

“Tis strange that on the fifth of March 1766, though having enjoy’d London for little less than a month after my travels upon the Continent, I awoke with a curious resolution to see the North Country.”
― Colin Harker, The Book of Blasphemous Words