But you built me dreams instead.

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

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.

Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

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

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.