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.

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

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.

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.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

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