He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

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.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.