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Susan Kay Quotes

born 1952 England

Susan Kay (born 1952) is an English novelist.

England
Novelists

Also known as: Phantom, Phantom (novel)

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12 quotes

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

Phantom (1990)

Killing is like riding, you see, one never really loses the knack.

Phantom (1990)

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

Phantom (1990)

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

Phantom (1990)

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

Phantom (1990)

For a moment I thought I knew exactly how Christ must have felt as He called John.

Phantom (1990)

Up in box five I blinked in surprised amusement. That was a new one! Little Giry should be writing Gothic novels, not prancing around the stage dressed as a water nymph!

Phantom (1990)

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

Phantom (1990)

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

Phantom (1990)

Awful things!... truly awful. The floor in our dressing room starts to run with blood... disembodied hands come out of the wall and crawl across the stage.

Phantom (1990)

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.

Phantom (1990)

Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...
Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.

Phantom (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Kay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.