Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.