Sarah Dunant Quotes

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

I am definitely one of those girls who want to get married. I have two sisters and they are both married with kids, and I'm like, 'Oh, I want that.'

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.

I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.