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.

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.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

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

Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent.

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.