"...And, as the Pattern in Rebma had helped to restore my faded memories, so this one I was now striving to create stirred and elicited the smell of the chestnut trees, of the wagonloads of vegetables moving through the dawn toward the Halles.... I was not in love with anyone in particular at the time, though there were many girls—Yvettes and Mimis and Simones, their faces merge—and it was spring in Paris, with Gipsy bands and cocktails at Louis'.... I remembered, and my heart leaped with a kind of Proustian joy while Time tolled about me like a bell.... And perhaps this was the reason for the recollection, for this joy seemed transmitted to my movements, informed my perceptions, empowered my will...."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Chapter 9 (p. 93)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Amber
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Chronicles of Amber
149 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Chronicles of Amber →
Related Quotes
"We will learn whatever we can, of course. Power is power, and represents a threat until it is understood."
"Would she really behave as Luke said, though? It made a sort of sense, but then people seldom keep company with ratio…"
"“It’s kind of you to want to do me a favor,” I said, “but at times such as this, one must be excused for checking the…"
"“It means nothing to be able to transport yourself anywhere,” I heard her say, “if you are a fool in all places.”"
"“Do you know something I don’t?” I asked. “Many things,” she replied."
"“You don’t trust anybody, do you?” “Family tradition,” I replied, “backed up by recent experience.”"
"“You are not so blind that you deny the Absolute, the beginning and end of everything?” “It is not indispensable to a…"
"Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest."
"I was garbed all in white, the color of Moby Dick and vanilla ice cream. Ugly."
"If you had a choice between the ability to detect falsehood and the ability to discover truth, which one would you take?"