“My intent was to write a story that would become a true legend, so it was important to me to present Holly Claus’s story as a legend, a fantasy that would become a part of the culture…a tradition…a classic. I want Holly’s story to endure for generations."
— Brittney Ryan”

“One of the bravest thing a child can do is dream, and believe it is truly possible. Brittney Ryan”

“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.”

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

“I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at all the stories that are now forever silenced.”

“Did you know that when we were kids Cass used to tell me your stories? She used to laugh at you. Not in a mean way, but in the way that Cass used to laugh at everything before...." He gestures around us at our world now. I shake my head. "I thought Cass never liked my stories. Never remembered them." "Oh yes, I would beg her to tell me if she had new stories from you." "Why didn't you ask me yourself?" I whisper. "Because you were Harry's," he responds. "Not always." "Yes, always," he says. "Always in his eyes," he adds in a softer tone.”