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You ask for her secret, though you might not know that's what you're about; and she can't tell you without learning it herself. And she wants not to learn that secret.

— John Crowley Engine Summer (1979)

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Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)

The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in the confirmation of his knowledge that Mind, in the center of all, contains within it all that it is the center of?

Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)

The world is founded on a pillar which is founded on the Deep.

The Deep (1975)

The vastest point, the center, the infinity — Faëry, where the gigantic heroes ride across endless landscapes and sail sea upon sea and there is no end to possibility — that circle is so tiny it has no doors at all.

Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament (1981)

One winter night when he was a boy … he first saw a ring around the moon.

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