That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.