It’s clumsy to trust anyone. People are uniformly imperfect and erratic. But if you have to guess, bet on them serving their own interests.
You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today.
Toys are meant to be played with. Do your best to keep them in decent shape, and that will be good enough.
Ticks are everywhere. Same with poison ivy. If people let that stop them, nobody would ever go anywhere.
Sometimes good people grow weary of society.
A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions.
Hours, days, and years have become voids within voids. I stand alone against the impossible. And the universe sends children. How can I serve you? Would you care for some candy? Perhaps a bedtime story?
Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Everyone causes harm,” Calvin said. “Sometimes we hurt others, and sometimes we hurt ourselves. If you’ve caused a problem, you learn and do better. You become smarter for next time. And you undo what harm you can.
The fundamental premises of the law are mischief for mischief, magic for magic, violence for violence.
If you go where you do not belong, you could open the door to vicious retribution from powerful enemies.
We weren’t quite immortal. We did not age, so I suppose some of our kind could endure forever, if lakes and rivers last forever. Difficult to say. We did not really live, not like mortals. We dreamed.
I know I’m not permanent in this world,” Kendra said. “But guess what – neither is the sun. I get to live my life. Someday death will free me and I will go someplace new. I don’t want to get stuck here. What if this life is just the beginning?” What if death means the end?
It was very foolish to catch a fairy, Seth,” Grandpa said. “I warned you they were unsafe. But I share some of the blame. I’m sure you were inspired by Maddox and wanted to begin a career as a fairy broker.
Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.
You were a friend at my lowest point... That’s a true friend. I’ll always be yours.
I no longer fear honesty. I have learned that anything important accomplished through dishonest means eventually unravels. Facing unpleasant truths protects us from building on faulty foundations.
Enough to feed an army for a year.” “Or two satyrs for a month,” Newel said.
Why would you go and ruin a perfectly good steak with ketchup?
Everything is better with Seth around.