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Mrs. Adler’s Recipe for a Fairy Tale For any fairy tale worth its salt, you will need most, if not all, of the following ingredients… One princess in some sort of trouble and/or distress. One magician. If a magician is unavailable, you may substitute a wizard and/or wise woman. Basically, anyone with magic powers who knows more than they’re willing to tell. One hero, the more unlikely, the better. One to three villains worth fighting (and don’t skimp on the evil deeds). A member of a royal family disguised as a nobody. A pinch of unusual animals. Place all ingredients into a world that is not
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“It’s called ‘searching behavior,’ ” he said. “People who lose someone will find themselves walking for miles or driving for hours…Lots of theories on why. I think it’s guilt. Misplaced usually. We think we should have been able to stop it, but we can’t. Even after they’re gone, your body keeps trying to do something to help even though you can’t.”
In other words, a hero on a quest for the Holy Grail isn’t looking for the Holy Grail. The hero is trying to find himself, and the only way he can find his true self is by going on a journey, being tried and tested until he knows if he is a hero in name only or a hero in truth. And that’s why the world has Holy Grails—not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes.
“They had a writers’ club that met here, the Inklings.”
Ask any question in an infinite universe, and the answer is yes. Always yes.”
In an infinite universe, all stories were true stories.
Joy is quieter than people think it is. Especially the joy of getting back something you thought was lost forever.”
All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.
“You can’t save them all, but today we will save one.”
