Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.