Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.