Eleni

“And all her unsaid thanks so burned in her heart that all of a sudden she rose and left her tower and went out to the open starlight, and lifted her face to the stars and the place of Orion, and stood all dumb though her thanks were trembling upon her lips; for Alveric had told her one must not pray to the stars. With face upturned to all that wandering host she stood long silent, obedient to Alveric: then she lowered her eyes, and there was a small pool glimmering in the night, in which all the faces of the stars were shining. "To pray to the stars," she said to herself in the night, "is surely wrong. These images in the water are not the stars. I will pray to their images, and the stars will know." And”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.”
― Lord Dunsany

“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

“Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.”
― Lord Dunsany, A Dreamer's Tales