“My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul...”

“You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the princ...”

“There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.”

“Those who live in memories are never really dead.”