Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

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

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.