It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.