I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away.