So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.