Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.