I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.