How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.