Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.