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Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4) QUOTES

Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4) QUOTES

1 " It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell’s intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

2 " Rebuff and rejection, and I know I was far too tired to deal with him without making things worse. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

3 " Is it so wrong to be needed? "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

4 " He’d learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn’t let him distract you. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

5 " I follow the voice, follow the sobbing and cursing, follow it down a twisting, tightening spiral until, somewhere far beneath the earth, among the roots on the monstrous clock, I find him. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

6 " Every maze has a monster at its heart. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

7 " There is a terrible weight to that never from Malkar Gennadion, who is also Brinvillier Strych-and who knows how many other names he may have had? Who knows how many lives he may have held and used and discarded, how many other lives he may have left ruined in his wake? I wonder if even Malkar himself knows any longer. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

8 " How easily we read each other when we’re out for blood. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

9 " I wanted to feel his strength; I wanted to feel him. I didn’t care how anymore. I just wanted him to touch me. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

10 " Mildmay’s anger was like a third person sitting between us-which was all the more unfortunate as there was barely room for two. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

11 " They did not care that this serene harmony was built on blood and death and pain. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

12 " I wondered what the real reason was that Kolkhis hadn’t properly taught him to read; it certainly wasn’t the reason he always gave, that he was too stupid to read. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

13 " I have a long and inglorious history of wanting what hurts me. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

14 " This was what he’d been before Strych got him. This was the part of him that was my brother down to the bone. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

15 " I’d seen him hurting, so he turned around and hurt me. Like a clockwork bear. Wind him up and watch him go. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

16 " Noirance isn’t about not being able to see. It’s about not being able to find your way out of the dark. Being lost in a maze. Or being the creature in the heart of the maze who waits for the lost to come to it as they always will. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

17 " What is mikkary?”

“The feeling a room gets when there’s been murder done in it,” Mildmay said.

Kay’s face was very still for a moment; then he said slowly, “Yes, I know that feeling well. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

18 " You help me become someone who can save himself. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

19 " The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)

20 " Bernatha had a clockwork heart, but that heart did not run. "

― Sarah Monette , Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)