You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.