“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight. Shielded with flax and calfskin and a cold weight of ink, there broods the ghost of Sepulchrave, the melancholy Earl, seventy-sixth lord of half-light.”
Mervyn Peake
Gormenghast
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.""And?" Eddis prompted."Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge.”
Megan Whalen Turner
The Queen of Attolia
“The wall of silence that exists between us is as long as the Great Wall of China. And though it’s the same length, our wall is about two bricks quieter. ”
Jarod Kintz
Brick
“The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.”
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
“If the Lord calls us to be a bridge, we have to learn to bear in his strength the weight. And it hurts. And it's good. And the Lord equips.”
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
“Even though it's dark and cold there is always a shade of light.”
Angela Bernabe