My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

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.

[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe