"When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he..."
- Kelly Link
"You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place."
"Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always..."
"Wizards are always hungry."
"Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends."
"No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out..."
"This is the list you carry in your pocket, of the things you plan to say to Kay, when you find him, if you find him:1. I’m sorry that I forgot to water your ferns while you were away that time.2. When..."
"Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves."
"Sometimes a friendship is more like a war."
"There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait."