“Long ago there was a little boy who lived in the wood with his father and his sister. One night, the three of them were out collecting firewood when they heard a low, delicate whimper. The father r...”

“A fortress doesnt fall unless its towers are weakened.”

“Letti wasnt born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.”

“I never tolerate disrespect or betrayal”

“Why do the birds return? What dyou mean? Brandon looked lost all of a sudden. I mean, they could go anywhere. Theyre freeso why do they return to this place? Brandon grinned. Cause homes home no m...”

“Then I guess we have a problembecause this man, Luhan Kane, is under arrest by decree of the Elders Circle. My authority outweighs yours.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”

“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.”