The circus arrives without warning.

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.

It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all.

Words often outlive the people who create them.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.