The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

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

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

I like that "once upon a time" quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.