“And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.”
“If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion’s body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him.”
“Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!”
“Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.”
“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.”
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.”