If it's important, your heart remembers.

I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.