Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose. - Ursula K. Le Guin

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it’s true. Children know that. Adults know it too and that’s precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom.

"How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you."

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.