"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

Your mom said to say I could have just one peanut butter square but not til after they cool down.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.