I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just <i>were</i>. - Neil Gaiman

“You’ve a good heart,” she told him. “Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.” Then she shook her head. “But mostly, it’s not.”

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.