That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

I actually do like traveling.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.