Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.