Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.