Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.
There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.