It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes.