

“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree

“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess

“There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree

“Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.”
― Winter's Tale
― Winter's Tale
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