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

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.