He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.