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“I have al the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. Come to my door if you have a book – and a good one, not just your great-aunt’s book of doly patterns – and I will give you an egg or a cake or a pair of woolen socks. I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after”

I've cards, of chess if you prefer, but I've always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.

She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's tha changeling road, and there's Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

But one cannot simply say mysterious things and then run off! That's parctically begging to be fallowed.

Breacking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.

That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home – someday, somehow.