“And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.”

“Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that ...”

“Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.”

“The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.”

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the authors life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, t...”

“Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will...”

“It is better to hug than shake hands.”

“You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hugand the lights go out!”

“Human beings connect with a holy hug.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“...yes I understand your spellsyour sex magicat least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...”

“The whole of Paris was lit up. The tiny dancing flames had bespangled the sea of darkness from end to end of the horizon, and now, like millions of stars, they burned with a steady light in the ser...”

“...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...”