Nikki

“I couldn’t weep here, any more than I could hope. Of course he couldn’t stay: and much as I wanted him by me, I wanted even more that my friend have what he wanted for himself.”
― John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

“There aren't many now who leave from the same world they were born into. Not here, not anywhere on earth as far as I can tell or know; the simplest and most unchanging of human societies have been shattered in the last hundred years, people flung into centrifuges of change and loss, that there comes to be nothing at last to say good-bye to. I was leaving the world, but it was not my world I was leaving”
― John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

“Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.”
― John Crowley, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

“After that he had more or less stopped reading. You could not trust fiction. What good were books, if they couldn’t protect you from something like that?”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods