The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.