Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. - Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

"Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else."

"Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble."

"Where there is a Key, there is yet hope."

"I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see."