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A Marvellous Light

Freya Marske

Top 10 Best Quotes

“You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”

“I am nothing like you, and yet I feel more myself with you.”

“It didn't take long to become so accustomed to something that you could describe the exact shape of its absence.”

“Because if even a single woman was involved, they wouldn't have decided that a man who'd been working there one day was a more likely source of information than a woman who'd been there for years.”

“On the contrary, stories are why anyone does anything.”

“He was one barely powered magician with nothing but a tendency to let books replace people in his life.”

“Mostly, the library had the quiet that managed to fill libraries like a solid presence.”

“Good to see you, Edwin, old chap. Don’t give my regards to your family. I never liked any of them.”

“You can do this,” Robin said. “I know you can.” “You don’t know anything,” Edwin whispered, but it sounded like thank you.”

“It wasn’t the physical act alone. It was the way he felt watching Edwin read; it was the feeling he had every time his eyes sought Edwin in a room and landed on an angle of the man’s face, any movement of those delicate fingers: There you are. I’ve been waiting for you.”

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