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?

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

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.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.