I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.