"We said that in romance as a whole neither the waking world nor the dream world is the real one, but that reality and illusion are both mixtures of the two" 55
"One of the social is that a male-dominated society a man often assumes that he ought to get a virgin at marriage, otherwise he may feel that he has acquired a secondhand possession" 78
"At the beginning of a romance there is often a sharp descent in social status, from riches to poverty, from privilege to a struggle to survive, or even slavery" 104
"the hunter is seeking a false identity which is the same thing as his own destruction" 105
"Ovidian metamorphosis, the reducing of humanized beings to something subintelligent and subarticulate" 116
"a god-born devil's dung" (119)
"life that is a pure continuum, beginning with a birth that is a random beginning, ending with a death that is a random ending, nothing is more absurd than telling stories that do begin and end." (125)
"It is obvious however both that the happy ending exists only for readers who finish the book...[and] exist only for survivors" 135
"in descent narratives the central image is that of metamorphosis, the freezing of something human and conscious into an animal or plant or inanimate object" 140
"the study of literature should...help the student become aware of his own mythological conditioning, especially on the more passive and critically unexamined levels" 167
"...heaven and hell have been written but the great poem of earth has still to be written." (171)
"William Blake once said 'imagination has nothing to do with memory.'" (175)
"...all memory is selective, and the fact that it is selective is the starting point of creation." (175)
"violence becomes melodrama." (183)
longer quotes:
see pages...36, 77, 85-87, 97, 107, 129-131, 136-138, 151-153, 156-57, 167, 186-188
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