This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.