Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do.

Magic is a naughty beast.

As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.