“Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”
“Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.”
“And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.”
“Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.”
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
“Love me, love my rag dolls," God says. It's a package deal.”