Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

[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.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.