We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.
Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
To be rather than to seem.
I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.