Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

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.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.