So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.