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Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1) QUOTES

Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1) QUOTES

1 " Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

2 " Sacred bleeding fuck,” I said, because, I mean its one thing to know your crazy hocus brother sees ghosts, and a whole different thing when you find out they’re telling him bedtime stories. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

3 " Well fuck me sideways 'til I cry "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

4 " I miss my fox-headed brother. Keeper "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

5 " I’m a cat burglar. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

6 " Faith Cowry turned out to be little, dark, skinny, bright-eyed as a wren, and not the least bit stupid. And despite what Estella’d said, she didn’t strike me as absentminded either, just somebody who knew what mattered, and it didn’t include showing up on time to meet Estella’s low-life friends. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

7 " I wonder what they think of me in their world of light, deaf to the broken patterns around them. I wonder what stories they have invented, to explain me when I cannot explain myself. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

8 " I can hear broken edges, failures, a great emptiness where there should be beauty. I can hear a faint, sobbing thread of song, running through the desolution like a tickle of tainted water through a battlefield strewn with corpses. It is all my fault. I cannot remember how or why, but I can feel my guilt in everything I touch. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

9 " The darkness was crowding up around me, and, while I couldn’t hear the Virtu any longer, I was becoming fretfully aware of something else, a noise like some vast heartbeat, only with too many pulses. Mélusine, breathing. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

10 " I understood him then, as tendrils of the violet-red miasma that surrounded him reached out hungrily toward me. He was not interested in my body, as I’d already realized; for Brother Orphelin, celibacy was not a difficult discipline. His lust was for secrets, for shame and guilt, for petty darknesses. More and worse, he was a sophisticate: his pleasure was not in the secret itself, but in the power it gave him over me, in his knowledge of what it did to me to know that he knew. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

11 " I was whole again, clear-headed, vital and focused in a way I hadn’t been since I was first learning magic, first learning to be free. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

12 " The briars of Malkar’s compulsion twisted round and round me, gouging me, mocking the truth I could not speak, mocking my pain. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

13 " He turned and strode out of the square with the brisk arrogance of a man who had never imainged the possibility of his being in the wrong. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

14 " The Spire is a bad card. It can mean a literal tower, but it also means a fall from a height, whether literal or figurative, the destruction of something old and valuable. It means isolation, abandonment. It is the card of the scapegoat.”

“All of them things?”

He raises an eyebrow at me. “The card also means falling to prey to your own self-confidence. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

15 " What happened was I hit the cold place inside my head, the place where I’d been when I killed people for a living, the place especially where I ended up when a job looked like it was going bad. I can’t describe it so it makes sense. It’s really cold and really clear and nothing in the world matters except not fucking up the job-in this case, getting my damn brother on board this ship because it was what he’d said he wanted. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

16 " Gideon was there, warm and green and smelling slightly of cloves but not at all of bitterness and death, and I could hear no voices in my head at all. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

17 " I look up at the stars, serene and brilliant and out of reach. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

18 " It is hard to swerve Ocean and Sky from their deepest desires. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

19 " There ain’t much to be said about walking across Kekropia aside from the boredom of it. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)

20 " My brother, Mildmay, my fox, who’d guided and guarded me all the way across Kekropia. "

― Sarah Monette , Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)