Adriana

“If the city was dreaming," he told me, "then the city is asleep. And I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious around their rivers and estuaries, like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and harmless things."
"What I fear," he said, "is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End

“We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop

“Catlike. Certainly that was the word which best described Clare Kendry, if any single word could describe her. Sometimes she was hard and apparently without feeling at all; sometimes she was affectionate and rashly impulsive. And there was about her an amazing soft malice, hidden well away until provoked. Then she was capable of scratching, and very effectively too.”
― Nella Larsen, Passing