Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.