“The shiny black nose of a fox appears through her door before the rest of it steps tentatively across the wooden floor to where shes cooking. A pile of childrens clothes lie discarded in a corner o...”

“You dont let many people behind that wall of yours do you? No I dont because basically people are shit. They have let me down over and over so now I choose them very carefully.You have let Yvan in,...”

“Tuoni takes her by the shoulders and turns her to face him. Remember this Anya. Dreams have power; they show old truths you are too blind to see on waking. They make you remember memories that are ...”

“The trail through the pines and beech trees was bright red. He was surprised the other human couldnt see it. She was walking slowly, not far from him. He could smell the moisture on her hot skin. S...”

“He felt the magic pouring through his body. The tattoo twitched and with a shout of pain Vasilli could not hold in, the creature pulled itself from his body. It flopped, bloody as a newborn onto th...”

“Squinting in the darkness Anya could just make out a strange curving symbol scratched into the bark. Baba Zosia scored a line through it, disfiguring the symbol. Anya felt something in the air chan...”

“She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless”

“Oh Jesus, oh Zeus, oh Odin,” Anya dropped the stick and started shaking. “Oh shit.” The bird spread out its wings, which slowly transformed back into arms and the rest followed until it was a man o...”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”