“ Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to B… Ellen Datlow
“ So the little girl collected feeling like a cistern collects the rain, and when she held too much, she pulled it out and sealed it in beautiful vessels. Ellen Datlow
“ It’s one of those stories that needs tellin’ because it’s heavy, Tom said. Tellin’ it makes it easier to carry. Ellen Datlow
“ I subscribe to the tea-kettle theory of art, she’d responded. Open the valve and the energy escapes. Ellen Datlow
“ Children often didn’t notice the things adults classified as disastrous. The opposite, Whitcomb thought, was also true. Ellen Datlow
“ A man with no memory is interesting, while a man with sad memories can’t be buried fast enough. Ellen Datlow
“ Were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe Ellen Datlow
“ If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat— Now Ellen Datlow
“ I hated and loved him in turns, as witches will do, for our hearts are strange and inexplicable. Ellen Datlow
“ Sometimes God needs a sacrifice. Sometimes the road is complicit. No life is sacrosanct. Ellen Datlow
“ Moral: If at first you don’t succeed, invent fire. Or hire a chef. Preferably one with imagination. Jane Yolen, Ellen Datlow
“ Merchant Bashir got up and plodded to a pile of rugs. He grabbed a kilim and unrolled it across the floor. A mosaic of black, yellow, and maroon geometries glimmered. He taught me rug weaving. It’s a… Ellen Datlow
