Where we focus our energy is where we will get the results.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.