I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

Deep rivers run quiet.

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.