You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.