We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

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.

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.