My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

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.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

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 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

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.