She began to laugh. You will wander, and live in many houses. “Many houses! - John Crowley

It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body.

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.