I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive