Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
Susanna ClarkeHe gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
Susanna Clarke..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.
Susanna ClarkeBut when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.
Susanna Clarke