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.

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

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I wished for her,” he says.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.

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.