The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.