i never thought it would end like this...

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending any time. You know where you are with an ending...

-The eldest of the three Fates, in Sandman #57: "The Kindly Ones:1"

"It's never what they want, and if we give them what they think they want, they like it less than ever. "I never thought it would be like this." "Why can't it be like the one I had before?" I don't know why we bother..."
"We bother because we have no choice. Because that is what we are, in this aspect..."

-The eldest and youngest of the three Fates, in Sandman #57: "The Kindly Ones:1"

"What did we make? What was it, in the end?"
"What it always is. A handful of yarn; a little weaving and stitching; some embroidering perhaps. A few loose ends, but that's only to be expected..."

-The Fates, in Sandman #69: "The Kindly Ones:13"