Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

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.