Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.