Megan

“It has all cost so much, and come to so little. There’s so much unfinished. But I cannot stay here. I thought I could, but I was mistaken. The world is sea-changed now, and I fear I belong to the Old World. “But this world has marvels in it too. Never doubt it.” Now he looked straight at Collum. “They are of a different kind now. No one will hand them to you. You can’t pull them out of a stone, the way I did, but they’re still there. It’s not too late.”
― Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“The totality of human endeavour is nothing when set against the stars.”
― Tom Sweterlitsch, The Gone World

“Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely