But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

You can be man of great net worth.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

You are alone with everything you love.