she could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hop… - John Crowley

When you return home, you'll tell the story of how you sought it and failed, and that story will be told and told again. And when you're dead yourself, the story will go on being told, and in that telling you'll speak and act and be alive again.

Prosper Olander had never been in a cathedral, but now he felt something like that, the experience of entering suddenly a space so large, so devoted to a single purpose, that the insides of the heart are drawn for a moment outward and into it, trying to fill it, and failing.

Violet always said that in her part of England a single eyebrow marked you as a violent, criminal person, possibly a maniac.