“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSource: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSource: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.”Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellSource: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell