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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

"True anchoress' are like birds, for they leave the earth: that is the love for all that is world and as a result of their heart's desire for heavenly things, fly upwards towards heaven. And though they fly high, with a high and holy life, yet they hold their heads low in mild humility, as a bird in flight bows its head.and they consider all their good actions to be worthless."

"You've had The Talk, as best as I can do it and now you're in the Imaginary business. Welcome aboard." Emily to Rudger

"It's the best sort of indoors there is for a rainy day. Every book is an adventure," and she loved adventures. Amanda to Rudger

"...to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward."

Prince Aleksander's pretend sleep is uncovered by master of mechaniks Otto Klop and Wildcount Volger, his fencing master. They lead him to his first night piloting of a Walker.?patents away.

Amanda has an imaginary friend Rudger, who she hung her coat on when coming inside out of the weather. They are inseparable and have wonderful adventures together.

Utter bliss! Every word of the introduction.

Will Charlie Bucktin help Jasper Jones drown the dead?

"The Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swords raised."

"I found a sad little fairy, Beneath the shade of a pepper tree, I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night." Abdullah & Pari, brother & sister travel with father, Saboor. Mother died, father remarried to Parwana with other child.

Benjamin has the ability to make any electronic gadgets he touches malfunction. His Dad told him it was the Pauli effect, a 'fizzy tist' from Austria caused same thing.

"But maybe there's more than one way to tell a story, maybe you don't have to begin at the beginning, and anyway, who really knows where anything begins?"

Explanation of Laureth's Dad's desire to write about coincidence is based on him forgetting Jung's book on a train only to find it years later, his exact book, on a train where he is assigned a seat next to same lady with whom he previously travelled.

He returns forgetting the tests the din has put him through and lives happy life, though always recalling the sound of a bell (which was tied to Qais to prevent his sleepwalking).

Father tells story to children of a din that visits a village where Baba Ayub has a family, the youngest son Qais, his fav. When the din comes the family is forced to sacrifice Qais. Baba cannot live without him so seeks the din & finds Qais alive & happy.

Laureth has received an email from someone claiming to have one of her Dads notebooks and when she cannot get in touch with him, she has a very bad feeling. Her father is a writer of funny books but then wants to write some serious about coincidence.

Bacon's quote on Fortune reveals title. Sixteen year old Laureth Peak claims to have kidnapped her 7 year old brother Benjamin, along with one of her mother's credit cards, and is navigating a UK airport to fly to New York. The clever reveal in the first chapter is Laureth's blindness.

"...the books stayed shut and squeezed together, telling their stories only to themselves between their covers."

"As for that beloved childhood copy of Charlotte's Web, where do Fern and Wilbur live: on the page, or in your heart?" Wendy Welch