How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.