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

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

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.