John Crowley

“Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and histories are not stories with beginnings and endings.”

“There is more than one world. This is one of them.”

“She had learned that the same object has more than one name; that a single object has more than one aspect.”

“The world is a story we are telling ourselves.”

“Stories last. They are the kernels from which all things grow.”

“It was as though the world had been turned inside out, and he was now walking among the roots of things.”

“We are all the children of a story.”

“The further in you go, the bigger it gets.”

“The past is not behind you, it's inside you.”

“All things are one thing, and that one thing is a story.”

“What is the little world that you hold in your hands, that you hold in your heart? The world of the story.”

“God is the story you are telling. God is the story you are in.”

“The secret of the world is this: the world is a secret.”

“Belief is a beautiful armor, but it makes for a strange bastion.”