Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.