“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”

“At the heart of natures mystery lies another mystery.”

“I'd never asked what year it was here-1492? 1750?-though to the animals I guess it hardly mattered. This was a safe place apart from the world of people, and only in the world of people did the yea...”

“She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,”

“Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.”

“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.”

“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.”

“I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”