Susanna Clarke Quote

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2005) - ISBN: 9781582346038

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old...

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old...

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old...

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old...