I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.