Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.