“Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a t...”

“They are faithful, even if we are not.”

“Do not lose your heart," she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.”

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.”

“Mirror mirror on the wall,Show me the one who can conquer it all”

“Ik riep: Doornroosje! Je bent ternauwernood meer van belang! Ternauwernood Nog net wel. Nog niet helemaal niet. Ik houd ternauwernood oneindig veel pijnlijk nauwgezet en desalniettemin niet voor he...”

“Esmeralda? Scarlett turned to the witch next. Dont you want to do magic, again? Of course I do! Its the only thing I dream of. Casting spells Turning people into frogs Genetically engineering my gi...”

“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.”