When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.