Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.