These are the quotes I liked from Strange the Dreamer that didn’t get their own separate posts:

Prologue

She was young and lovely and surprised and dead.

– Page 2 (Prologue)

Part I

He had a trio of fears that sat in his gut like swallowed teeth, and when he was too quiet with his own thoughts, they’d grind together to gnaw at him from within.

– Page 59 (Impossible Dream)

Part II

And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

– Page 135 (A Hundred Smithereens of Darkness)

So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe.

– Page 147 (The Muse of Nightmares)

He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

– Page 157 (The Fused Bones of Slaughtered Demons)

Part III

Those words were like… they were like seeing a bloody knife. You didn’t need to have witnessed the stabbing to understand what it meant.

– Page 231 (No Way to Live)

Part IV

Inside a dream.
Within a lost city.
In the shadow of an angel.
At the brink of calamity.

– Page 357 (Witchlight)

Inside a mist, inside a dream, a young man and woman were remade.

– Page 367 (A Singularly Unhorrible Demon)

Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night — or a life — are translated into story? There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill.

– Page 504 (What Version of the World)

But the roots of their hate and fear were too deep, and Lazlo saw hints of revulsion as their confusion smeared one feeling into the next.

– Page 506 (Windfall)