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Creative work, because it cannot be separated from our spirituality, inevitably connects us to that which is larger than us, and experiencing the sacred center of life can create a shift in perspective, can bring new insights and understandings that demand something of us.
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer, What We Ache For
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If the stories are right, Outside is a dangerous place. Ravens don’t feed you, animals don’t talk, and mortals may hate you if you’re wearing the wrong clothes. The worst thing is that there isn’t any magic except what you bring with you.
- Delia Sherman, Changeling

I’d heard a lot of fairy tales, and I remembered what I’d heard. If the stories warned me against getting into trouble, they also showed me ways of getting out of it again.
- Delia Sherman, Changeling

Never let the truth interfere with a good story.

Neef’s Rules for Changelings
- Delia Sherman, Changeling

In books you always know the rules. Or at least that there were rules if you could learn them. That’s the difference between stories and real life […]
- Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
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