The last enchantment Quotes

“The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens and clears, and evening comes. I stood and watched it. That immense body, dying trillions of feet away from me, still warming my face with its steady insensate chemistries.”

“If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.”

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”

“The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…”

“Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted”

“It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain.”