Fairy Tale

A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.

There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.

You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

I think all worlds are magic. We just get used to it.

Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.

There is pain in every almost.

When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.

it’s the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions and last the longest.

You get used to the amazing, that's all. Mermaids and IMAX, giants and cell phones. If it's in your world, you go with it. It's wonderful, right? Only look at it another way, and it's sort of awful. Think Gogmagog is scary? Our world is sitting on a potentially world-ending supply of nuclear weapons, and if that's not black magic, I don't know what is.

All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.

Here is something I learned in Empis: good people shine brighter in dark times.

I think there’s always a reason for love, but sometimes hate just is. A kind of free-floating evil.

My old resentments were mostly gone, but not entirely. Fright and loss leave a residue.

I don’t want to be a Disney prince. To hell with that. If I have to be a prince, I want to be a dark one.

Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.

I think tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.

but shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn’t knock.

I wish I had looked longer, but I don’t blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

a quote from Benjamin Franklin: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Sleep...it's the only escape we have.

Do you know what magic does, Charlie?’ I thought it did all sorts of things–allowing hapless pilgrims such as myself to visit other worlds, for instance–but I shook my head. ‘It gives people hope, and hope is dangerous.

And always let your conscience be your guide.” —Blue Fairy

He might be crafty, but that wasn't necessarily the same thing as being smart.

Monster dog. Like Cujo in that movie.

Did I know before then that a person can choose not to be angry? I don’t think I did. What I knew was that I didn’t want to leave that way, either.