Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.