What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

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

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.