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1 " I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. "
― Alan Garner , Boneland (Tales of Alderley, #3)
2 " I hope there isn't,' [a final answer] said Colin. "I'm for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you're done for. You don't listen and you can't hear. If you're certain of anything, you shut the door on the possibility of revelation, of discovery. You can think. You can believe. But you can't, you mustn't, 'know'. There's the real Entropy. "
3 " 'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever. "
4 " Why are you here?""To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock."“Why did you cut?""To send her spirit out, so that she would come to make the child, for me to teach to dance and sing and dream, to free the beasts within the rock to fill the world."“Have you found her?""She is not here. There are only people horrible to see."“Where are your stories?" said the other."I cannot tell them. My head is a cloud. "
5 " He cut the veil of the rock; the hooves clattered the bellowing waters below him in the dark. The lamp brought the moon from the blade, and the blade the bull from the rock. The ice rang. "
6 " to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came. "
7 " At the end of day, he looked out and saw that they were safe under ravens. "
