Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?