Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Do not let the darkness of others hide the brightness of your heart.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.

You have to grow the same way that you're seeing your own kids grow.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.