Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.