I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.