All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

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

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.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.