He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.