She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

I don't like to eat the same dish every day, so I read very different things.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a story and suddenly finding yourself in this world doesn't seem to be much fun at all.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.