But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.

Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

The universe is a great mystery.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.