“Nothing's impossible,” Poppet responds. She smiles at him and jumps, her red hair trailing out behind her as she falls.

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

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

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

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

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

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.