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Quotes from The Drawing of the Dark — Tim Powers

born 1952 United States

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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it’s the wages of everything else, too.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

He felt as if someone far away below in the darkness was chipping away at the pillars of his mind, and the steady crack...crack...crack of it was the only sound in the universe.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

You’re still Brian Duffy. As much as you ever were. But you’re Arthur, too, and that kind of outshines everything else. Brandy and water tastes more like brandy than water, after all.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

It struck Duffy that a touch of hysteria had sharpened the good fellowship tonight, as if the night wind whistling under the eaves carried some pollen of impermanence, making everyone nostalgic for things they hadn’t yet lost.

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

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