You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no. - Peter S. Beagle

This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you maybe get it a little close, a little closer. But right, like you're talking? No.

He had foreseen every such change in his fortune, ignored it always, and called the refusal innocence.

What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.