Nick Swarbrick

“I struggle impotently to express who I really am. Often I would confess these sins as I kneel and gabble my “Bless-me-Father-for-I-have-sinned …” but it is suffering too deep for speech, and true guilt almost too deep for conscious knowledge.”
― Maggie Ross, The Fire of Your Life

“There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“At the end of day, he looked out and saw that they were safe under ravens.”
― Alan Garner, Boneland