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

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.