WOW. What a wonderful and amazing to conclusion to a series I love so dearly. The Fairyland books are marvelous pieces of magic with some of the best writing. Their imaginative, inventive, funny, and charming. I cannot gush enough about these books. I feel so completely satisfied with this ending, which is very hard to accomplish. There's nothing quite as wonderful as reading a book you love for the first time, and I certainly cannot wait to restart this series soon.

As always, I bookmarked particularly lines I loved so that I may come back to them again and again.

"She'd forgotten what it was like to have a seventeen-year-old voice, a voice that didn't know its own strength yet, a voice that Grown-Ups felt very safe ignoring completely."

"[She] smiled a much older woman's smile, the sort of smile a girl learns on the back of years of holding her tongue."

"Your name goes before you--it tells everyone what you're about. Names are awfully old magic, older than the monarchy, older than me. Your name is the armor you wear in the Battle of Everyday. Hardly anyone gets to pick their own. It is one privilege of your position. When your parents choose your name, they make a little wish for you future and fold it up inside your heart forever. When you choose your own, you make your own wish."

"A thing is hardly real if no own's written about it. It's the writing that makes a thing proper and solid and true in the first place."

"All time is mean, young man. It takes and does not give, it rushes when you wish it would linger and drags when you wish it would fly. It flows sullenly, only in one direction when it might take a thousand turns. You cannot get anything back once time has taken it." (This spot in particular, reminded me of the themes of time in HAMILTON)

Just in general, the entire story of Fairyland was so beautiful. of course it make sense that we hear the story of Fairyland and the heart ends up being a story "Fairyland lives happily, but she has never been quite alone again. This is the sorrow of the human world and the Fairy wold, who cannot get along but cannot part."

"Even those pretty books I can see behind you--most of them got written by someone as dead as dust and you spend your afternoons dog-earring ghosts. You can ignore the ghastly, but it doesn't go away. Might as well enjoy the good."

"But that is the way of theatre, girl. It is everything, and then the curtain goes down and all you've got left is a program and half-eaten chocolate."

"For that is all a story is, my dears: a knife that cuts the world into pieces small enough to eat." I love how this ties into the third book and the themes of this one. This line really packs a punch especially when I go back on my bookmarks

"It is especially hard for children to believe that their parents might be off performing their own astonishing feats of Grown-Upedness whilst their little ones are battling ferocious octopi under the sea. But it is true. The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril."

"It's mixing up his continuity. Mangling his words. Eating up his narrative. His story. What's a boy without his story? No one. In another day he won't know his own name."Seriously adoring all the similar themes to HAMILTON.

"But anger can go off like milk in the icebox. It can go hard and rotting and turn everything around it rotting, too. By the time you have made your peace, your anger has reeked up your whole heart, it's so gunked up with fuming. That's why you must wash your anger every now and again, or else you can't move an inch." I loved the reappearance of Lye.

"'No,' [she] said simply. It had always been her best magic. Her first magic."

"The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people--and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety."

"You could always change the ending. Spoil it, rip it to pieces."

"Love invents all kinds of things, and a new sort of kiss comes into the world whenever two people put their heads together." Adoring the PRINCESS BRIDE vibes that I got from this sentiment.