It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs.