Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.