Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

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

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.