I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Oh Constance, we are so happy.