Susan Kay Quotes

#1. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.

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#2. I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

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#3. None of us can chose where we will love.

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#4. Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

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#5. I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana

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#6. And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

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#7. You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.

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#8. Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.

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#9. I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

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#10. All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

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#11. A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes ... malevolent ... omnipotent ... The Phantom of the Opera!

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#12. If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.

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#13. Every man to the Devil his own way - as

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#14. None of us can choose where we shall love...

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#15. I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.

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#16. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

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#17. I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

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#18. I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge ... the blindingly beautiful edge.

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#19. A woman who could look death squarely in the face and smile was beyond the plane of physical ruin.

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#20. Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

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#21. Wherever this shadowed path might lead, we were both irrevocably committed to follow it to the end.

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#22. Ah, well ... hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.

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#23. Is a poor substitute for food to a child with an empty belly.

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#24. He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been ... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.

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#25. Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

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#26. Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

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#27. Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

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#28. In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic - until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

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#29. Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

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