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

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

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

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

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

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.