The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
“Cora, you cannot always keep yourself away from things that hurt you. We all wish we could, but we cannot: to live at all is to be bruised.”
“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”
“We both speak of illuminating the world, but we have different sources of light,”
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafes on the Strand; it was lost by those who wished the past were present, and loathed by those who wished the present past.”
“in the end it was purpose I wanted, not achievement — you see the difference?”
“CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break it up.”
“William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.”
“anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time”
“We are cleaved together - we are cleaved apart - everything that draws me to you is everything that drives me away.”
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Book Keywords:
knowledge, time, bravery, fear, courage, story, love, profession, science, friendships
