How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

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.

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

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.