Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.