Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.