

“Sunny, a silver boy of nine, daydreams of rescuing two princesses: “The princesses’ savior was a gallant knight. No! A prince! The valiant prince was surprisingly young. And silvered.”
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel
― Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.”
― Red Queen
― Red Queen

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.”
― A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
― A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

“Paul wasn’t too sure about a half nibbled peanut, quite some parting gift, he thought.”
― Peanut the Hamster
― Peanut the Hamster
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