“Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.”

“…ultimately we all deserve the hand we’re dealt.”

“Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness.”

“People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes.”

“Desperate times call for hopeful measures.”

“You never really know someone until your relationship with them is over.”

“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I included fairy tales? Fairy tales are storytelling at its most basic. They’ve been with mankind for as long as people have told stories to each other. Fairy tales speak to something intrinsic in humans—they touch our most primitive selves. How else to explain that the Cinderella story is told in nearly every society on earth? To think of fairy tales as merely stories for children is to ignore thousands of years when fairy tales were used to teach morality, to warn, and to entertain both children and adults.”