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A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1) QUOTES

A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1) QUOTES

21 " You are deliberately being cryptic,” she exclaimed. “Why?” “Because I don’t like you. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

22 " the detritus of left-over life that makes magic what it is, for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don’t even notice we’re living; "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

23 " The good must be merciful, even if that mercy to the damned is merely in a quick dispatch. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

24 " It was not the flesh we would have chosen, but I had long since given up dreams of resembling anyone from the movies and, with the pragmatism of the perfectly average, come to realise that this was me and that was fine. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

25 " I train myself to think only in words, neat, linear structures, passages with correct punctuation that can define a train of reasoning, understanding – nothing left to chance. I "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

26 " Life was magic in a more mundane sense of the word; the act of living being magic all of its own. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

27 " For the moment, we could ignore revenge, anger, pain, desire, hunger, want, fright, fear and hope; all we could hear was the gentle heartbeat of the city, and when we walked, we walked in time to its rhythm. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

28 " between nowhere in particular and somewhere less than distinct. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

29 " if you could understand by yourself why a thing was true, you would believe it more than just having it told to you by a teacher. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

30 " I ran my hands down the old, narrow house wedged in between two shiny new office buildings, feeling its sluggish, heavy history tingle against my fingers, its own unique power. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

31 " You can be too safe, you see – and what’s the point of being alive unless there is a progress, a journey, and somewhere, at some point, an end? What else other than that motivation makes us really live, the sense that this is a chance we must use, and now? "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

32 " they had grown bored with ordinary living and needed to seek out this new thrill to make up for the mundanities of existence. And "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

33 " How can you bear to understand that you will get old and lose this feeling, will die and wither and encounter nothing but dark? How can you bear it? Since "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

34 " Good luck and the eternal interlinked cycle of life crap. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

35 " I put my head against the cold glass of the mirror, fighting the sudden terror that threatened to knock us back to the floor. The trick was to keep breathing, to keep moving. Nothing else mattered. Run long and hard enough, and perhaps while you’re running you might actually come up with a plan. But nothing mattered if you were already dead. "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)

36 " what’s the point of being alive unless there is a progress, a journey, and somewhere, at some point, an end? What "

― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)