Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

The best way to die is when your living

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

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

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them