Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

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.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.