It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.