Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

There is always time for another last minute