“The day the Dragon chooses a male virgin instead of a female as his yearly sacrifice, the entire kingdom erupts into mass protests and anger.”

“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. You must go back to sleep, her mother tells her, Its not time. From what she understands, the Prince hasnt come to rescue her yet.”

“When the Lilliputian family of the Pequenos migrated to Gullivers land of the Man Mountains, they expected to encounter many strange issues while settling in. What Mrs Pequenos didnt anticipate was...”

“At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen...”

“Today, Mihir stopped a bomb from killing the Tahitian President but not from shattering his own collar bone. So, he is now in the operating chamber, undergoing his 250th reconstruction. The nurses ...”

“Ive always wondered about your name, Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.”

“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.”