Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

They say everyone needs something to love.

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

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.

Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.