Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears..

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee a….

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed ….

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance..

All things are strange which are worth knowing..

...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness..

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else..

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The….

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat..

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are..

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about..

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tool….

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope..

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough..

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection..

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all th….

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home ….

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me..

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run aro….

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know m….

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always cha….