He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew that, and still it surprised me. How long I was willing to wait for something that was only a possibility. I always thought it was just a matter of time but I was wrong.

Is magic not enough to live for?

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

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