Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.