“Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.” LoveDreamDesireWealthLandRichesNoblePrincessThinkApprenticePrinceMarryMidgetClaimRealm Book:Dawn of Wonder Source: Dawn of Wonder
“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.” TruthImaginationImagineTreeStrangeExcitingScaryAppearanceDeceptionEyesThinkSurrealBlinkMoreBeholderAppearDecieveAntThough Book:Dawn of Wonder Source: Dawn of Wonder
“You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.” AgeTimeStrongChangeWeakGoodSurrenderPityThinkBadEffect Book:Dawn of Wonder Source: Dawn of Wonder