Ulla

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward.

And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

“We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story’s end.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night