What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

I thought you had forgotten me.”“I have spent my life remembering you.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.