"That's the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all."
"Something my father said. He was... Old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting, alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'My shoes are too tight. But it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance.' I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance".
—Londo Molari, Babylon 5, Season One Episode 7 - The War Prayer
"Rosebud..."
— Charles Foster Kane. Citizen Kane
"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you're happy, but... you don't really believe it. You focus on the petty bullshit, or the next job, or whatever. It's only looking back, by comparison to what comes after, that you really understand: that's what happiness felt like."
—Conrad Kellogg, Fallout 4
[Julia] had made a grave mistake: she had misunderstood something about herself, something so basic she couldn't understand how she'd missed it until now. She didn't need this, and she didn't want the goddess to come.
Pouncy had told her when she first got to Murs that it wasn't enough for her to love him and the others, she had to love magic more. But she didn't. She came to Murs looking for magic, but she was also looking for a new home, and a new family, and she'd found them all, all three, and it was enough. She was content. She didn't need anything else, least of all more power. Her quest had ended and she hadn't even known it 'til this moment. She didn't want to become a goddess. All she'd wanted was to become human, and here at Murs it had finally happened.
Now it was too late. She couldn't stop what was coming.
