He didn't look depressed. He had a careful three-day growth of beard. His beard was not depressed either. But you never can tell. - Ben Okri

It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

"How many times had I come and gone through the dreaded gateway? How many times had I been born and died young? And how often to the same parents? I had no idea. So much of the dust of living was in me. But this time, somewhere in the interspace between the spirit world and the Living, I chose to stay.