I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

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.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

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.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.