...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Familiarity breeds consent.