It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.