I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

I was loving you, I am loving you and I will love you for the eternity. Love is eternal.

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

Christmas is love.

Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

When your mind is besieged by some inauspicious thoughts, you can bring the sunshine into your life by staying calm!

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

You belong wherever you want to belong.