I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.