Why break the heart that never beat from love?

- Mervyn Peake

Mount and begone. The world awaits you.

- Mervyn Peake

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

- Mervyn Peake

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly e…

- Mervyn Peake

To live at all is miracle enough.

- Mervyn Peake

The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at th…

- Mervyn Peake

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

- Mervyn Peake

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell

- Mervyn Peake

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heav…

- Mervyn Peake