Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, th….

I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immor….

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them..

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out w….

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing..

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad..

This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what you’ll ….

The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a….

Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Ju….

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world..

I am the Walker and the Maze..

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived..

Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I….

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death..

One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and fo….

Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have ….

Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eye….

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibl….

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinki….

Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something….

I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to be….