It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.