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.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

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

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

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.