Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.
I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
