Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.