The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

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.

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.