I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

I will tell the stork-man.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.