All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.