The heart is a muscle the size of your fist. Keep loving, keep fighting.

Even in the darkest of times, there is always hope.

I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo. So do I, said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

There’s no such thing as writing that’s too honest.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab.

There are no endings, only new beginnings.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.