You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.