There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly stra...
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.
A Nottinghamshire man called Tubbs wished very much to see a fairy and, from thinking of fairies day and night, and from reading all sorts of odd books about them, he took it into his head that his co...
Where have they gone? Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
Yet we ought to kill someone!' said the gentleman, immediately reverting to his former subject. 'I have been quite out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
Stephen began to dream again. This time he dreamt that hills walked and the sky wept. Trees came and spoke to him and told him their secrets and also whether or not he might regard them as friends or...
Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively those prayers are phased.
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see.
Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of greatneed. Only in England is it part of the constitution.
Mr Norrell, it is not the duty of the court – any court – to exalt one person’s opinions above others! Not in magic nor in any other sphere of life. If other magicians think differently from you, then...
Sometimes the pain in Childermass’s shoulder escaped from him and ran about the room and hid. When this happened he thought it became a small animal. No one else knew it was there. He supposed he ough...
As [Norrell] watched she was seized by a fit of coughing that continued for some moments, and during that time Sir Walter appeared most uncomfortable. He did not look at the young woman (though he loo...
He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.
Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful! Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner, said Strange. That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and enco...
Oh, quite! agreed Byron. I was with him again a few hours ago and could not get him to talk of any thing but his dead wife and how she is not really dead, but merely enchanted. And now he shrouds hims...
He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.
He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
O desânimo, Mister Black, é o pior tormento de que um homem pode sofrer.
Their religion is of the strictest sort, Stephen. Almost everything is forbidden to them except carpets. Stephen watched them as they went mournfully about the market, these men whose mouths were perp...
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