Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.