The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

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.

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.

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.

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

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