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> [“Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/almost-as-soon-as-it-was-lit-it-began-to-sound-as-though-it-were/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

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## More by John Crowley

> [“The Crows of the region could have told them that there are almost always more Crows around them than they can see; but like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/the-crows-of-the-region-could-have-told-them-that-there-are-almost/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/learning-to-decipher-words-had-only-added-to-the-pleasures-of-holding/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/it-occurred-to-him-that-seeing-a-woman-s-child-is-like-seeing-a-woman/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“He learned, though slowly, what all great harrowed lovers learn: that love is what most surely compels love -- is perhaps, except for brute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/he-learned-though-slowly-what-all-great-harrowed-lovers-learn-that/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/only-think-a-moment-that-we-are-here-now-and-that-that-was-then-and/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/love-is-a-myth-love-is-a-myth-grandfather-trout-said-like-summer-what/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“The Tale was behind them. And it was to there they journeyed. One step would take them there; they were there already”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/the-tale-was-behind-them-and-it-was-to-there-they-journeyed-one-step/)

[john crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/they-called-him-john-storm-john-after-his-grandfather-but-storm-after/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“Handsome guy, Victor, in a brutal, black-Irish way. Like most New York bartenders, he was really an actor, or was it the reverse? ("Novelty")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/handsome-guy-victor-in-a-brutal-black-irish-way-like-most-new-york/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [The things that make us happy make us wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/the-things-that-make-us-happy-make-us-wise/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“There was a game she had played with Sophie in the long hallways of Edgewood, where she and Sophie would stand as far apart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/there-was-a-game-she-had-played-with-sophie-in-the-long-hallways-of/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“... their lives were full of quiet drama, full of vague yet thrilling signs that life was not as the common run supposed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/their-lives-were-full-of-quiet-drama-full-of-vague-yet-thrilling/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/it-was-anyway-all-a-long-time-ago-the-world-we-know-now-is-as-it-is/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/i-could-be-listening-to-painted-red-weave-the-stories-of-the-saints/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

> [“What you learn as you get older is that the world is old, and has been old for a long time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-crowley/what-you-learn-as-you-get-older-is-that-the-world-is-old-and-has-been/)

[John Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-crowley/)

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