Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.