That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.