The book Forest Dark wants to provoke questions about what is reality and why are we so given to believe that reality is firm and unbendable. There's a whole host of questions that the book is asking about that. Why do we believe that the world is only one way and as we see it? Why are we not open to the ways in which it might be otherwise.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.