I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

What we need now is endless courage.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.