This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.