“Why- who made you decorate the watermelon like a ferret?""The art fairy”

“highlighters, a hairband, Athena, ferrets, a band of flamingos, and wa-la! A perfect spaceship!”

“Imagination creates wonders. May your dreams continue...”

“Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.”

“She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!”

“I don't appreciate people who celebrate their dog's birthdays with "dog parties," and then invite their friends who don't even have dogs. I understand why people like dogs, and I think they definitely bring more to the table than cats or those godforsaken ferrets, but I don't think it's healthy for people to treat their dogs like they are real people.”

“Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon”