Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.