When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

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

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.