She touched you twice,' he said in a little while. 'The first touch was to bring you to life again, but the second was for you. - Peter S. Beagle

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts...

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.