“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.”

“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?”

“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.”

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

“Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die. ”

“I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.”