Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen….

Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword..

Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red comp….

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next t….

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was goi….

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, an….

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth..

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft d….

These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Wo….

Someone ought to write a novel about me..

I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the p….

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. ….

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, de….

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is alway….

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've….

She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as….

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It….

When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start anothe….

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think..

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone..

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet..