It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.