Ayla

“Time passes strangely when you are sleeping. You can close your eyes when it is night, then open them again and see morning. Yet the hours that went by seemed no longer than the drifting journey of a leaf in a soft breeze.
Strange, wonderous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost and found. ~Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep.~ And then we awake, with disappointment, or relief, as if nothing ever happened.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“When you are telling a story, you can suggest things that would get you in trouble if you were just stating your own opinion. And you can suggest even more if you wrap one tale inside another. So if you're telling a tale about a merchant, and the merchant tells a tale about a barber, and the barber tells a tale about a fisherman... Well in the fisherman's tale you can put the most provoking and mutinous truths. Because the tale is so far removed from you.”
― Susan Fletcher, Shadow Spinner

“As long as I have my trousers I have my hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it." -Lestrade, Hound of the Baskervilles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle