If I stop, I shall sink and die. That’s the way I’m made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I’m going, I’ll have to keep on. That’s living.
Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can’t hurt anyone.
You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
I can’t imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It’s not done! You don’t go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn’t go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.
I am freedom and I will eat your heart.
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire – where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!
I’ve always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.
I am the Walker and the Maze.
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Everybody’s strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you’re not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours – they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.