Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.