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.
Susanna ClarkeYou mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.
Susanna ClarkeThere is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
Susanna Clarkeyou must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
Susanna ClarkeWhen he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!
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