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Narrator: This is a true story, and true stories, unlike fairies, do not always end happily.

Narrator: Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

Narrator: Sometimes there are problems that even magic can’t help you o. You have to do it the good old-fashioned way.

Narrator: Normally nobody tells the truth to queens.

Perdita: I am the head of the learning place! The head of the learning place should always be the cook. It’s the most important job.

Hoola: Love is weakness.
Perdita: Maybe it is, but what a very nice weakness it is indeed.

Perdita: The world is full of people who are mean. You have to learn to deal with them without losing your temper.

Narrator: There were whole terms on trees. The different kinds, how to recognize them from their leaves, talking to them, tending them, what different woods did what different things.
Me: I want to take these classes!

Narrator: Those on a shadow quest no longer care if they live or die, which is why they are known as ‘shadows.’

Perdita: We’re not really a learning place only for spectacularly gifted Wizards.
Hoola: Every parent seems to think they have a spectacularly gifted offspring even though it’s completely obvious that not everyone’s offspring can be spectacularly gifted.