Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

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.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.