Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.