Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.