I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.