The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?