The Year's Best Science Fiction Quotes

“And yet they did not sense me, or do me hurt, which I attest is starkly impossible, unless but that one of the Good Powers that old tales said sometimes save men from the horrors of the Night had indeed suspended the normal course of time, or relaxed the iron laws of nature out of mercy. No one knows these things.”
― Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection

“A time came when I passed beyond the sight of the Last Redoubt; even the tallest tower of the Monstruwacans was not tall enough to see into this land where I now found myself. I was beyond all maps, all reckoning.”
― Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection