rooms that are no longer there...

"It is a fearful thing to be haunted by those who loved us once. It is a fearful thing to haunt those one loves..."

-Destruction orates about death, in Sandman #55: "Cerements"

"I mean, does this always happen when a girlfriend walks out on him?"
"Not at all. For example, after the Nada affair he razed the Dreaming. It was a bleak, lonely desert for centures. I remember the first flower that grew. The first time he smiled again...

-Matthew and Lucien, in Sandman #42: "Brief Lives:2"

"I remember waiting for his return. I remember the strange strained grey days that stretched into years and into decades. The slow crumbling of walls... the rooms that were no longer there..."

-The Corinthian remembers Dream's absence, in Sandman #67: "The Kindly Ones:11"