“This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?”
“You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.”
“Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do”
“I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.”
“If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic,what else?”
“...so claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats.”