Brandon Bell

“I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren’t big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big,” he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. “What did your father say?” asked Fizban gently. “He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. ‘If you look at all the big things in the world closely,’ he said, ‘you’ll see that they’re really made up of small things all joined together.’ That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It’s the small things that make the difference.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

“Because a new season has passed, or because a recognition has been given, still it is not changing a person very much on the inside.”
― Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

“I will do my best to make sure you have everything you require to see it through. What if you find yourself enamored with cheese and wish to become a fromager? I will make that happen. An actor? I don’t know how much more I could teach you as you’ve already proven adept at staging plays on your own, but I will attend every performance, and I will be the first to rise in what I imagine will be a thunderous standing ovation.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“I worry all the time about the children. I worry about them when they sleep. When they wake up. When they run, when they eat, when they laugh or cry or sneeze. When they ask questions or when they answer questions. What does that make me?” Linus snorted. “That makes you a father.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea