She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

She simply didn't have an interest in men anymore. It wasn't that she didn't like them, she just knew how easily they broke.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

- What day is it?- It's today, - squeaked Piglet.- My favorite day, - said Pooh. ("Winnie-the Pooh", A.A. Milne)

We learn to beat fear by doing.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.