Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

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

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.