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

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.

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

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.