Quotes from Tom Deitz

There is a strange thing about anticipation," Fionchadd told him. "It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.

And at the end of seven years the Queen of the Faeries pays a tithe to Hell," Aikin finished, as he joined them. "That's what it says in 'Tam Lin'.

Unbidden, the lines from the Book of Job came to him: "Going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it". He also remembered who it was that had said them.