The ground beneath our feet is home to more untapped wonder than the skies above our head.

There are differences between facts and truths. Facts are something you now in your brain; truths are things you know in your heart.

There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

I think if you’ll look around, my boy,′ he said gently, ’you’ll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

The apprentice’s name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.

He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way – hand frozen in the air.

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

He squeezed Steve’s shoulder possessively. “Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called ‘Canada’.

He could still escape – the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

That was the point where she was supposed to sound tough, like she was someone to be reckoned with, like she was the sort of person witches should listen to. Was this really her plan? She sounded like a child.