“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”

“I do like the world quite a lot.”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”

“I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”

“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 wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.”