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[bryonyashley]

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

[bryonyashley]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke.

[bryonyashley]

[bryonyashley]

“The sky spoke to him. It was a language he had never heard before. He was not even certain there were words. Perhaps it only spoke to him in the black writing the birds made. He was small and unprotected and there was no escape. He was caught between earth and sky as if cupped between two hands.”

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

[bryonyashley]

[bryonyashley]

I gave magic to England, a valuable inheritance But Englishmen have despised my gift Magic shall be written upon the sky by the rain but they shall not be able to read it; Magic shall be written on the faces of the stony hills but their minds shall not be able to contain it; In winter the barren trees shall be a black writing but they shall not understand it...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

[bryonyashley]

He was more like a magician than ever before. It was very curious and no one knew what to make of it, but in some ways he was more like Norrell.

[bryonyashley]

“Chuse some other sort of school and the next time I hear that a lord or lady has need of such an establishment for their little lordlings, I will send them your way." "I do not want another kind of school!" said Mr Segundus, peevishly. Childermass smiled his sideways smile and rode away.