For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages — when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in… - John Crowley

He learned, though slowly, what all great harrowed lovers learn: that love is what most surely compels love — is perhaps, except for brute force, the only thing that does, though only (and this was the terrible gift he had been given) when the lover truly believes, as August could, that when his love is strong enough it must surely be returned — and August's was.

Qui non intellegit, aut taceat aut discat: if you don’t get it, shut up or go figure.

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.