“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”

“When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”

“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”

“A crossbow? Pigeon asked.I left my battle-ax in my other jeans, the man said.”

“I like pancakes.”

“Could you just call me Pigeon? he asked the teacher when she read his name.Does your mother call you Pigeon?No.Then to me you are Paul....Nathan Sutter, the teacher read.My mother never calls me Na...”

“Youre free to dream however you wish, Nollin teased. But dont ask the rest of us to share your unrealisticThen dont ask us to share your weakness! Jason interrupted.”

“Rolling flat onto his back, Drake shuddered. Then he inhaled deeply. He stared up at the night sky. "We're going to win," he said, his voice calmer, less strained. "This is nothing. Keep going. The...”

“And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief."Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to k...”

“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.”