She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.