Simon

“To think about events realistically, in terms of multiple causations, is hard and emotionally unrewarding. How much easier, how much more agreeable to trace each effect to a single and, if possible, a personal cause!”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

“People want miracles. Sometimes the only miracle is, I take your hand. That’s the miracle.” A”
― Kem Nunn, Chance: A Novel

“Plutarch records that in the early years of the reign of Tiberius the pilot of a ship rounding the Greek archipelago passed a certain island at dawn on the solstice day and heard his name called from shore: “Thamus! When you come near the Palodes, tell them that the great god Pan is dead!” He thought at first to refuse, being afraid, but when he came opposite the Palodes, he called out the words as he had heard them: “Pan is dead! The great god Pan is dead!” And then there arose from the island a lamenting and wailing, not of one voice but of many mingled, as though the earth itself mourned. A shiver ran up Pierce’s spine beneath the blanket. He had read this story before, and had shivered then too.”
― John Crowley, The Solitudes

“She was staring out a window and he was taken, as he had been in the bookstore, by her length and line.”
― Kem Nunn, Chance: A Novel