“If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.”

“Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.”

“Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.”

“That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.”

“It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.”

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

“It's not like there's a law against flying.""Yes there is. The law of gravity.”