Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment