Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?