I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.