Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place
Anything that can be dreamed is true.
A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.
Vendo sogni, piccoli comfort, tentazioni dolci e innocue.
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark.Nat Parson's a gobshite.Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
Love not often, but forever.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
I envy the table its scars, the scorch marks caused by the hot bread tins. I envy its calm sense of time, and I wish I could say: I did this five years ago. I made this mark, this ring caused by a wet...
Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie.
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.
I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time.
We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow.
There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.
I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.