"If I were young as once I was, and dreams and death more distant then, I wouldn't split my soul in two, and keep half in the world of men." The Fairy Reel, p. 27

"'I like your stories. Mine are always too dark.' 'I don't think so,' said October. 'It's just that your nights are longer. And you aren't as warm.'" October in the Chair, p. 43

"Is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge towards freedom, the drive to escape?" Forbidden Brides..., p. 62

"I like things to be story-shaped. Reality, however, is not story-shaped, and the eruptions of the odd into our lives are not story-shaped either. They do not end in entirely satisfactory ways." The Flints of Memory Lane, p. 65

"True madness takes or leaves us in the wood halfway through all our lives." Going Wodwo, p. 83

"There are doors, after all, between...