For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.