Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighte….

However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm ….

If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin..

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules..

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's stor….

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then….

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?.

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands..

Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, y….

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . ..

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant….

This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger..

In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound die….

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that th….

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow..

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holdin….

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—….

Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not ….

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that y….

Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an ….

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected….