“They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.”

“I’d believed in that story, the story of us. It was still there,that antiquated fairy tale notion. I was older now, though, and it wastime to let the fairy tale go.”

“The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.”

“She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.”

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

“One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.”