You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.