Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

The power of love is the strength for the heart.

I don't know what is in my destiny, but I want to be sitting on top of the highest peak of the sky.

Don’t promise when you’re happy, don’t reply when you’re angry, and don’t decide when you’re sad.

Patriotism alone is not enough.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup.