Quotes from Vivian Vande Velde

Some things are just straw, and some things are gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.

Some people," Rumpelstiltskin told the cats, "just aren't happy unless they aren't happy.

Still, along comes a little man who, by happy coincidence, knows how to do what everyone wants.

Why he wants this child he never says, and she never asks. Obviously the miller's daughter is no more a responsible parent than her father is, for she agrees to the bargain.

But even as he put his scaly arms out to take the baby, another scaly arm pulled back one of the tapestries, and out stepped—of all trolls—his own brother.