Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.