Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction.

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.