I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.