Quotes by : Susanna Clarke

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with....

Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing....

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance in war a....

Above all remember this: that magic belongs as much to the heart as to the head and everything which....

Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went.....

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty....

It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it....

If I were you, Mr Lascelles," said Childermass, softly, "I would speak more guardedly. You are in the....