""YOU! You're boring! You're not even good enough for a good insult! You're in the one place Where magic is always real! Part the seas if you want! Rain down ink and blood! Transform! Fly! You're not allowed to spend the rest of your life panicking! You've got to give something back if you want to get out of here!"
"What? What?? What do I give?"
"You've got stories in there, I know, I can smell 'em--"
"Stoppit, stoppit! I don't! I can't tell a story to save my life!"

"Funny you should put it that way.""
— Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Vol. 05: Dream Sequence)

"Magic. I want magic. I want magic that works.
THere is no doctor that can make the creature back into my daddy. No therapy that can make him into what he should have been.
No going back to the beginning and rewriting. He is what he is and if I have to write what I know, I'm doomed, because I can never write about this, never."
— Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Vol. 04: Talisman)

"The force of your gaze has a weight. Even sunlight resting on the ground weighs something. Your attention presses against its object, your eye projects it like a headlight.
There's a flip side to it. Learn to go down inside yourself, dim the force of your presence. People's eyes will skate right over you.
They'll see you; they just won'tnotice you.
This works even if they're looking for you."
— Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Vol. 03: King of the Cats)