Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.