a.s. byatt – Planet Laurel

“Think of this—that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each…”

“Think of this—that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”

- A.S. Byatt, Possession.

“I find I am at ease with other imagined minds — bringing to life, restoring in some sense to…”

“I find I am at ease with other imagined minds — bringing to life, restoring in some sense to vitality, the whole varnished men of other times, […] the incessant weaving labour of the marvellous brain inside the skull — making its patterns, its most particular sense of what it sees and learns and believes. It seems important that these other lives of mine should span many centuries and as many places as my limited imagination can touch.”

- A. S. Byatt, Possession.

“—this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance, a grey mist, in which floated or…”

“—this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance, a grey mist, in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects, odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom.”

- A. S. Byatt, Possession.

“Loki was interested in things because he was interested in them, and in the way they were in the…”

“Loki was interested in things because he was interested in them, and in the way they were in the world. He was neither kind nor gentle, not anyway when he inhabited the world of myth. In the folktales he was a fire demon, mostly benign, providing warmth for hearths and ovens. In the world of Asgard he was smiling and reckless, a forest fire devouring what stood in its path.”

- A. S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End Of The Gods.