Mallory

“What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it. Maybe it was all a game, that got crumpled up and thrown away at the end, but while you were here it was real.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“I always die at the end," he whispers, and he is afraid now, his hands shaking. "It is always like this. It is never easy".”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Once having set up her idols and built alters to them, it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The space between them has grown strong, suddenly. A room in which they are always walking.”
― Jim Grimsley, Dream Boy