Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.