Corambis Quotes

“You help me become someone who can save himself.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“What is mikkary?”

“The feeling a room gets when there’s been murder done in it,” Mildmay said.

Kay’s face was very still for a moment; then he said slowly, “Yes, I know that feeling well.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I’d seen him hurting, so he turned around and hurt me. Like a clockwork bear. Wind him up and watch him go.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“This was what he’d been before Strych got him. This was the part of him that was my brother down to the bone.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I have a long and inglorious history of wanting what hurts me.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I wondered what the real reason was that Kolkhis hadn’t properly taught him to read; it certainly wasn’t the reason he always gave, that he was too stupid to read.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“They did not care that this serene harmony was built on blood and death and pain.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Don’t worry, darling. I only want you for your mind.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I saw his smile, and I wanted, with the sudden pitiless clarity of a lightning bolt, to drag him away-out of the engine’s maw, of the labyrith’s heart, out of the cold and sleepless dark beneath Summerdown.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“He’d learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn’t let him distract you.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Is it so wrong to be needed?”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Mildmay’s anger was like a third person sitting between us-which was all the more unfortunate as there was barely room for two.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I wanted to feel his strength; I wanted to feel him. I didn’t care how anymore. I just wanted him to touch me.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“There is a terrible weight to that never from Malkar Gennadion, who is also Brinvillier Strych-and who knows how many other names he may have had? Who knows how many lives he may have held and used and discarded, how many other lives he may have left ruined in his wake? I wonder if even Malkar himself knows any longer.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Every maze has a monster at its heart.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I follow the voice, follow the sobbing and cursing, follow it down a twisting, tightening spiral until, somewhere far beneath the earth, among the roots on the monstrous clock, I find him.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Noirance isn’t about not being able to see. It’s about not being able to find your way out of the dark. Being lost in a maze. Or being the creature in the heart of the maze who waits for the lost to come to it as they always will.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“In the Lower City, eclipses were the worst of ill omens being as they were the special providence of the God of the Obscured Sun.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“I heard the huff of his breath, as if I had struck him, as if perhaps my words had reached through his self-righteousness.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Bernatha had a clockwork heart, but that heart did not run.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Guilt was like the taste of ashes.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“Rebuff and rejection, and I know I was far too tired to deal with him without making things worse.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell’s intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis

“How easily we read each other when we’re out for blood.”
― Sarah Monette, Corambis