She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.