My days are as long as despair can make them.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.