You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

You deserve to take up space.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.